Kickstarter: Automating Backup, Replicate & Restore in Greenplum

Disaster Recovery (DR) isn’t just “take a backup.” At MPP scale, you need a repeatable end-to-end flow with minimal coordination and downtime. This post walks through the DBA Operations Kickstarter framework that wraps gpbackup, gpbackup_manager, and gprestore into a fully automated DR pipeline

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Kickstarter: Automating Partition Maintenance in Greenplum

Partitioning is a cornerstone of scalable analytics in Greenplum Database. The hardest part of partitioning isn’t design, it’s keeping partitions current. The kickstarter Partition Maintenance toolset is a set of Bash/Python utilities that operationalizes this lifecycle for Greenplum. This post will dive into this set of tools.

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Predicting Customer Churn Using Greenplum and gpmlbot

This blog summarizes a demonstration delivered to a customer interested in understanding how Greenplum can be used for machine learning, without exporting data to external systems. The objective was to showcase how churn modeling can be prototyped and iterated entirely within Greenplum using the gpmlbot utility, which automates feature preparation, model training, and evaluation.

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