Greenplum's Platform Extension Framework (PXF) allows Greenplum to access external heterogeneous data. PXF acts as a federated query engine using built-in connectors to access various data sources and formats in parallel. This provides high throughput access to external data stored in places like Amazon S3, HDFS, SQL databases, and others. PXF provides a tabular view of external data and supports reading and writing external data stores.