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What is the “Data partitioned, Shared-Nothing, Parallel Database” solution for PostgreSQL ?

I was looking for a open source parallel database solution. It seems Postgres-XC is a viable solution. However, I don't need the replication. In this case, is there any better solution towards read ...
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Does the pgpool-II extension allow for parallel execution of any query?

I read about pgpool-II here and it states that: Using the parallel query function, data can be divided among the multiple servers, so that a query can be executed on all the servers concurrently ...
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Why are so many MPP solutions based on PostgreSQL instead of MySQL?

Astor Data, Greenplum and GridSQL all allow Massive Parallel Processing of SQL queries. They are also all built around PostgreSQL technology. Is this just because of licensing issues or are there ...