Greenplum Chorus Software: Productivity engine for Data Science Teams

Real-Time Collaboration

Greenplum Chorus breaks down the silos across the enterprise by replacing the backlog of email with a single interface for all your organization’s data together with virtual databases for exploration and innovation, and social collaboration for insight and analysis. Greenplum Chorus provides rich social network features that revolve around datasets, insights and other key Chorus components, allowing data analysts, IT, DBAs, executives and other stakeholders to all participate and collaborate in the same environment. The result is that the data science team can bring ideas to the table and collaboratively discover, share and discuss insights that have a meaningful impact to the business.

Data Search

Gone are the days of hunting through email or shared drives for that comment or piece of code. Instead, everything is tracked and available through the Greenplum Chorus interface. Chorus delivers federated search across data assets anywhere in the enterprise. Chorus indexes all metadata, comments, SQL and data assets to create a living data dictionary available in the form of a search prompt.

Data Exploration

With Chorus, analysts can browse and explore datasets across the enterprise. Once imported into the workspace, Chorus will manage the flow of data, and will track the dependency and update their copy when the source is updated with new data. Analysts can operate on the data, and can share the results of their analysis as a new dataset that can be discovered and accessed by other analysts.

Self-Service Provisioning

With Chorus, the data science team can create new sandboxes with a few simple clicks. There is no longer a need to file a ticket with IT and wait hours or weeks for the solution. With self-service provisioning, users can provision new sandboxes as a stand alone Greenplum Database on virtual infrastructure provided by VMware’s vFabric infrastructure. Alternatively, the users can instantiate new sandbox schemas on the fly within existing Greenplum Database instances.

On-Demand Visualization

By providing the data science team a rapid visual representation of information, there is no longer a need to export the data to a local desktop, import into R or another tool, and then create a visualization. Not intended to replace advanced reporting tools from our BI partners, Chorus includes a set of visualization options that provide a data preview to speed insight and understanding of data. Chorus supports histograms, frequency, heat-map, time series and box plot charts for on-demand visualizations.