What exactly is a Teradata Database?
• Teradata Database is a RDMS (Relational Database Management System) which helps in driving the company’s Data warehouse.• It provides foundation for the company to grow, compete, evolve business by getting answers to a new generation of questions (typically “what if” queries)
• It supports business growth from gigabytes to whooping hundreds of Terabytes
• Teradata Database is an Open system and compliant with major support from ANSI standards
• It works on UNIX MP-RAS, WINDOWS and LINUX operating systems, connects with other client through Network Attached channel (TCP/IP) and Channel connection for Mainframe.
Why Teradata Database?
• Ability to keep up with rapid changes and ever growing demand from business (through Scalability)• It supports and maintains
o Enterprise Data warehousing
o Active Data warehousing
o CRM
o DataMarts
What makes Teradata Database unique?
1. Single Data store* Doesn’t replicate data for different requests from varied clients
* Concurrent approach, avoids data replication for each requests
2. Scalability
* Provides Linear Scalability, slope of 1.
* If you add a Node (memory block), increases performance without delayed throughput
* Supports terabytes of data. (10power12)
3. Unconditional Parallelism
* Multiple processors work together to accomplish a task
4. Parallel aware Optimizer
* Aware of all components present in the system
* It determines the Least Expensive path (time-wise)
5. Ability to model the business
* Provides Single View of Business
* Focus is on the whole-Business Model and on individual model
