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title: Greenplum Database Concepts 
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This section provides an overview of Greenplum Database components and features such as high availability, parallel data loading features, and management utilities.

-   **[About the Greenplum Architecture](../intro/arch_overview.html)**  
Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing \(MPP\) database server with an architecture specially designed to manage large-scale analytic data warehouses and business intelligence workloads.
-   **[About Management and Monitoring Utilities](../intro/about_utilities.html)**  
Greenplum Database provides standard command-line utilities for performing common monitoring and administration tasks.
-   **[About Concurrency Control in Greenplum Database](../intro/about_mvcc.html)**  
Greenplum Database uses the PostgreSQL Multiversion Concurrency Control \(MVCC\) model to manage concurrent transactions for heap tables.
-   **[About Parallel Data Loading](../intro/about_loading.html)**  
This topic provides a short introduction to Greenplum Database data loading features.
-   **[About Redundancy and Failover in Greenplum Database](../intro/about_ha.html)**  
This topic provides a high-level overview of Greenplum Database high availability features.
-   **[About Database Statistics in Greenplum Database](../intro/about_statistics.html)**  
An overview of statistics gathered by the ANALYZE command in Greenplum Database.

**Parent topic:** [Greenplum Database Administrator Guide](../admin_guide.html)

