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On Monday, Greenplum -- now owned by tech giant EMC -- revealed that it has spent the last two years building a new Hadoop platform that it believes will leave the traditional database behind. Known as Pivotal HD, this tool can store the massive amounts of information Hadoop was created for store, but it's designed to ask questions of this data significantly faster than you cam with the existing open-source platform.



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