by Roland Lee | Feb 11, 2025 | VMware Greenplum
Introduction Getting the most out of your database requires developing a data access layer. The alternative solution is to use a database proxy. The Heimdall Database Proxy for Tanzu Data provides a seamless solution to manage front end connections without any...
by Erik Bransberg | May 18, 2021 | AWS, HA Failover, VMware Greenplum, Web Scale
Erik Brandsberg, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), delivered a highly informative and in-depth technical presentation focused on the capabilities and limitations of two widely used PostgreSQL proxies, namely Pg-Bouncer and PgPool-II. This educational session is...
by Roland Lee | May 25, 2018 | HA Failover, VMware Greenplum
Why Heimdall Data for Pivotal Data? As a transparent Database Proxy, Heimdall manages the interaction of Pivotal Greenplum and GemFire, all without code changes. Notable benefits include: Zero downtime: Automated Write Master failover Improved Performance:...
by Erik Bransberg | May 3, 2018 | VMware Greenplum
Problem When working with massive amounts of data, an MPP (massively parallel processing) architecture allows many compute nodes to process segments of the data individually before aggregating the results together. However, interactive applications have lower latency...