Greenplum Streaming Server (GPSS)

Greenplum Streaming Server (GPSS) is a high-performance gRPC-based framework designed to facilitate the rapid ingestion of streaming data into VMware Tanzu Greenplum databases. Originally developed as part of the Greenplum ecosystem to handle modern real-time data workloads from sources like Kafka and RabbitMQ, it serves as a critical bridge between streaming platforms and analytical databases.

The product's heritage is deeply rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area, emergent from the open-source Greenplum Database project which pioneered mass parallel processing (MPP). Over several decades, the brand transitioned through major corporate entities including EMC and Pivotal Software. Today, it is a key component of the VMware Tanzu portfolio, managed under Broadcom Inc. following its landmark acquisition of VMware. Development and engineering primarily occur in the United States and global engineering hubs maintained by the parent corporation.