VMware Tanzu Data Solutions Reviews

Greenplum is a distributed database that we used for data warehousing.

The parallel load features mean that Greenplum is capable of high-volume data loading in parallel to all of the cluster segments, which is really valuable.

The service management capabilities are good.

The external data integration with Parquet, Avro, CSV, and unstructured JSON works well.

It has an advanced query optimizer.

The initial setup is somewhat complex and the out-of-the-box configuration requires optimization.

- OS settings need to be tuned according to the Install guide.

- Only group/spread mirroring by gpinistsystem, block mirroring is manual (Best Practices Guide)

- Db maintenance scripts are not supplied - some of them added in cloud - need to be implemented based on the Admin Guide.

- Comes with two query optimizers, PQO is default, some queries perform better with the legacy planner, it needs to be set.

We have been working with Greenplum for about five years.

Greenplum is pretty stable.

This product is absolutely scalable. We have more than 400 users in our database.

The technical support is exquisite.

This is a company that really listens to its customers. I am very happy with our relationship.

Before I joined this company, I used different data warehousing solutions.

Making the transition to Greenplum requires a completely different mindset because it is massively parallel. It's more like a Big Data mindset, where you need to consider that you are distributing data between cluster nodes. It is not always straightforward to make the switch.

The initial setup is kind of complex. You need an expert to set up a Greenplum cluster.

It may not be possible to simplify the initial setup because there's an out of the box configuration and you can use it. I've actually seen companies using it for years and it works, but it didn't work optimally so they were not happy with the results.

You can set up Greenplum but you really need to read the manual and the installation guide. I've seen people skipping it and then complaining.

A few people are enough to maintain this product. If you want to have around the clock support then you will need a couple of people in different time zones, but generally, maintenance is straightforward.

We are currently in the process of upgrading from version 5.26 to 6.11 and I can already see a lot of improvements. I can't wait to try them. According to the roadmap, there are a lot of new improvements coming in the V7 version, which is due out next year.

My advice for anybody who is implementing Greenplum is that they really need an expert to assist them. They might hire consultants or grow experts in-house, although that takes time and it is not always straightforward. You can use Greenplum out of the box but to really leverage all of the capabilities, you definitely need to tune your system and also design your database objects.

When people think about a database they usually think about Oracle, Mircosoft SQL, or maybe MySQL. Greenplum is a distributed database that needs a completely different mindset. I think that when people start to use it, they don't really understand. For example, you cannot switch from Oracle to Hadoop because you will need the same change, but when they switch to Greenplum from Oracle, or just put data from Oracle to Greenplum, they don't consider this change as seriously as they would for Hadoop.

Overall, I am very happy with this product.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use RabbitMQ for tasks that need to communicate in real-time. I have used it as a microservices message broker.

The most valuable feature is that it's really customizable.

When you have simple tasks, it is easy to use.

When you have complex tasks, RabbitMQ is hard to use.

There are several things that you have to do manually, so there should be better tools for that.

I began working with RabbitMQ several years ago.

I have had no issues with stability. It has been perfect.

Scalability is not a problem.

Because we are using the open-source version, we do not use technical support and have been solving problems on our own.

The complexity of the setup depends on the scope of the implementation. For a single node, the initial setup is very easy. On the other hand, for setting up RabbitMQ with a cluster, you really have to know what you're doing.

We are using the open-source version, which can be used free of cost.

My advice for anybody who is implementing this product is to learn the concept of message queuing and study the AMQP 0-9-1 protocol. If you study this then you won't have any problem learning the system and working with it.

In summary, this is a good product that I will continue to use, and I recommend it.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

We use VMware RabbitMQ to transfer information from one point to another. 

VMware RabbitMQ needs to create a new queue system. 

I have been using the solution for one and a year. 

My company has 10-15 users for VMware RabbitMQ. 

VMware RabbitMQ's installation is easy. However, it doesn't come with any manuals. 

You should use the solution if you want to store your details in the queue and start taking inputs from the queue. I rate it a nine out of ten. 

With VMware Tanzu Greenplum, one can make a huge database table and analyze the queries by adding in the SQL command. Some hint or command for the query goes over the multi-parallel execution. Also, queries can be sent quickly to other database systems.

VMware Tanzu Greenplum needs improvement in the memory area and improved methods for quick access to the disc. So, one of the quick goals of Greenplum must work on enhancing access to the disc by adding hints in the database.

I have been using VMware Tanzu Greenplum since 2017. I have installed the ring through the Dell Dell Platform, the EMC platform, and the DX100.

We use the VMware Tanzu Greenplum support directly, the community for open source Greenplum database. I rate it a seven out of ten.

Neutral

The initial setup was complex because of the architecture we used. Ten people are needed to maintain the product, of which eight are DBAs, and two support the operating system as the administrator.

For the support network of the product, overall installation, use of the database, and improved database and support, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Tanzu Greenplum's most valuable features include: the integration of modern data science approaches across an MPP platform, including the ability to massively denormalize data and spread it across your MPP segments; the ability to index data and make it searchable, which significantly reduces the need for ETL; its fast performance. Tanzu Greenplum is also very active in providing additional functionalities and software when needed, like GPText indexing of JSON events.

Tanzu Greenplum's compression for GPText could be made more efficient.

I've been using Tanzu Greenplum for eight years.

Tanzu Greenplum's overall performance is outstanding.

Tanzu Greenplum is highly scalable.

VMware's technical support is probably the best I've seen.

The initial setup was very easy.

Tanzu Greenplum's pricing is really competitive and gives excellent value for money. I'd say that the benefits of orchestrated deployment and the features of GPText make the licensed version worth it.

When considering implementing Tanzu Greenplum, I recommend viewing it as a massive lakehouse, not just a data warehouse. I would rate Tanzu Greenplum ten out of ten.

The use case involves the transferring of messages between services. It includes asynchronous messaging and I also need messages flowing to multiple microservices. In this case, it's basically a fan-out mechanism.

RabbitMQ is configurable and quite flexible.

The performance is fast and reliable.

It is easy to use. The addition of more queues and more services can be managed very easily.

There are some security concerns that have been raised with this product.

The configuration works with a config file, where all of the controls, including that of the administrator and user access, are stored there. The security isn't very stringent or very elaborate.

RabbitMQ is a stable solution.

This is a scalable product. There are six or seven services that are connected and using it.

I have not been involved with anything that necessitated contacting the support team.

Previously, we were using MSMQ, which is the Microsoft Message Queuing service. However, with the new version of .NET 4, support for MSMQ was no longer available. We could no longer get the libraries. As a result, we had to switch to a different queue mechanism. 

I have also used Azure Queue.

The initial deployment was quite easy. It took less than half an hour to get it up and running.

I deployed it myself.

The pricing for RabbitMQ is reasonable. It is worth the cost.

We researched ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, and Kafka. We found that Kafka was a bit of an overkill because our requirements were quite simple. RabbitMQ was pretty easy to set up, which is why we chose it.

My advice for anybody who is implementing this product is to establish your users and exchanges properly.

In general, I'm quite comfortable with RabbitMQ. It satisfies my requirements and the main complaint I have is about the security.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

We use this product for general purpose messaging in cloud-based environments and as an implementation to MTP spec. We are customers of VMware and I'm a senior technical consultant.

One of the key benefits for us has been the ability to use this solution for microservice architecture communications because it provides great flexibility. One of our clients was able to push messages from the source which were replicated and forwarded to all the other brokers nationwide. Everyone who needed it, received it, and it's very cost-effective. 

The high availability and not having to replicate is valuable as is the message consumer. It can be configured depending on the use case to be a very fast message broker. I like the stability, the built-in admin tools and the plugin architecture. One of the things that makes it unique is that all of the components for messaging can be created programmatically, meaning you can have services or applications that get spun up or have auto incrementing instances. If you're in an elastic environment, you don't have to pre-configure the messaging system and the keys don't have to be known ahead of time. 

One of the issues is that as soon as you go outside of a switch or not in IP address range, the clustering no longer has all the wonderful features so clustering outside of network boundaries is a problem. I'd like to see stream processing as an additional feature. Kafka has a streaming API and I'd like Rabbit to have that too.

I've been using this solution for nine years. 

This solution is very stable, no problems there. 

This solution is very scalable and the number of users really depends on the organization. 

Technical support is good, very good. But because the underlying implementation technology is Erlang, sometimes the technical problems are at that level, in which case there's one major technical solution provider called Erlang Solutions. They're okay but if the problem goes past the product level and into the technology level, then there can be a delay in getting support because you're dealing with two companies and two technical support services. 

These days the initial setup is moderately complex because it uses a technology that is worldwide, Erlang, which is obscure. You have to install Erlang first and that is moderately difficult. Deployment takes about a day. 

They use a credit based system for licensingwhere you purchase credits. People don't like it.

My advice would be to have the messaging topology mapped out before you deploy to make the process from installation to a functioning solution more efficient. If you start looking at the topology from the revenue perspective, it usually ends up with more iterations to implement the correct topology, whereas if you start off mapping and then install, it's a more efficient way to go about it. 

I rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

We use the solution on our SaaS platform to speedup and simplify customer access across services.

Some of the most valuable features are “publish and subscribe”, fanout queueing, and scalability.

We have a number of different use cases in our scenario. A key one is “publish and subscribe”. We have spent the last year breaking up a large monolithic application into microservices and each microservice has to subscribe to different events for the purpose of CQRS and other kinds of updates. RabbitMQ is perfect for “publish and subscribe”. It does an awesome job at fanout, perfect for CQRS, messages are delivered to all subscribers with almost no additional latency.

RabbitMQ provides the ability to scale queues in a very simple and elegant way. If it had a “failure queue” with robust delivery and recovery built-in with the same power, that would be great. We use a completely different queuing system for failures. So there is a little more effort to take messages in a failure queue, analyze them, figure out what went wrong and then restart them in Rabbit. It is doable, and we do it, but if we had a round trip solution in Rabbit, that would be awesome.

For me, having a robust failure queue, is high on the list of improvements needed in the near future. This is an important update needed because right now we are using Doctrine for our failure queue. Doctrine does a great job.

I have been using the solution in the past year.

Rabbit is a very scalable solution. We could easily queue 50,000 messages in less than a minute. The first day we introduced Rabbit to replace another queueing system that we were using, there was disbelief on the part of the product team because the response was so fast. We need tens of thousands of messages queued in a short period of time, approximately one minute. For example, one user action could spawn 65,000 messages. We also need the ability to segregate different queues. This solution did a great job.

The installation is very simple and elegant, and we love the graphics. It lets us see exactly what is happening with the ability to start the queue, stop the queue, consume messages on the queue. This is a huge help.

We design, develop and deploy the solution ourselves.

We are also evaluating Apache Kafka. Our process is very disciplined. We look at the analytics, the abstraction, the architecture relative to our technical architecture, we ask ourselves questions about the use case, which is better for use A or B. Kafka is not as simple for “publish and subscribe”. You can do it, but not the best fit for us. However as a queueing system, Kafka is great. The records are stored on the queue in the order they are received, However, you can easily search by topic no matter how large the list. Important if you keep track of everything.

There are many different use cases for each technology, as well as many approaches. So have the architecture team graph and document every solution. Have a few training days to clarify the goal, the solution and the implementation. One of the things we do in our training is to actually create prototypes, the abstract model of our ideal state. This demonstrates exactly what we all need to do. Developers understand more quickly with a model. It flattens their learning curve and they are more productive more quickly.

I rate VMware RabbitMQ a ten out of ten.

It's super easy to deploy and it also supports different languages and analytics.

As of now, I honestly don't see any room for improvement. I am very happy with this solution, It's helped me a lot.

They should add more analytics. Their documentation could also be improved so that I don't have to bother my coworkers and tech support so often. 

They should advertise more and make it easier for consumers to leave feedback. That way, customers could read the reviews and decide if it's the right solution for them and their needs.

I have been using VMware Tanzu Greenplum for roughly one year.

VMware Tanzu Greenplum is both scalable and stable.

Their technical support is great.

The initial setup is very easy. Deployment took us roughly one or two days.

I would definitely recommend VMware Tanzu Greenplum. It's open-source and the support is great. It's also relatively cheap compared to similar solutions.

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of ten — I really like it.

The security is great. The interface is nothing special. The support hasn't been that great. You need to go online yourself, to the developer community for support. But apart from that, I think it's fairly secured, quite robust, and stable so far.

Their implementation is quite tricky. It's not that easy to implement RabbitMQ as a cluster. It would be great if they could improve that. 

I have been using RabbitMQ for three years. 

It's quite stable.

It is very scalable. I have a team of 10 developers who are using it and I have some of our clients using it in our Cloud cluster. We have about 10 banks running on the platform now.

I would rate their support as a five out of ten. It has room for major improvement. 

The initial setup is quite straightforward. It can be done within a few hours. 

I would recommend it, but I think there should be a proof of concept for the developer team to get their hands around it and have full control of it before they go into production.

I would rate RabbitMQ a seven out of ten. 

In the next release, I would like for them to improve the UI.