High-Performance Analytics for Today's Business

Teradata Database: High-Performance Analytics for Today’s Business

DATA WAREHOUSING

Because Performance Counts Already the foundation of the world’s most successful data warehouses, Teradata Database is designed for decision support and parallel implementation. And it’s as versatile The success of your data warehouse has always rested as it is powerful. It supports hundreds of installations, on the performance of your database engine. But as from three terabytes to huge warehouses with petabytes your analytics and data requirements grow increasingly (PB) of data and thousands of users. Teradata Database’s complex, performance becomes more vital than ever. inherent parallelism and architecture provide more So does finding a faster, simpler way to manage your data than pure performance. It also offers low total cost of warehouse. You can find that combination of unmatched ownership (TCO) and a simple, scalable, and self-managing performance, flexibility, and efficient management in the solution for building a successful data warehouse. Teradata® Database.

With the Teradata Software-Defined Warehouse, In fact, we continually enhance the Teradata Database customers have the flexibility to segregate data and to provide you and your business with new features users on a single system. By combining Teradata and functions for even higher levels of flexibility and Database’s secure zones with Teradata’s industry-leading performance. Work with dynamic data and schema-on- mixed workload management capabilities, multi-tenant read operational models together with structured data economies and flexible privacy regulation compliance through completely integrated JSON and Avro data. become possible in a single Teradata Database system. Query processing performance is also accelerated by the world’s most advanced hybrid row/column table storage capability and in-memory optimization and vectorization for in-memory database speed. Enhanced hybrid row/ The Teradata Database Difference column storage enables high performance for selective queries on tables with many columns while also allowing Your data warehouse solution depends on its database pinpoint access to single rows by operational queries. engine. So make sure the database you select offers: Sophisticated in-memory processing optimizations and use of vector commands in the latest processors to qualify •• Effortless scalability •• Columnar. many rows in a single operation combine with Teradata through fully parallel •• Cost-based optimizer. Intelligent Memory to provide in-memory processing operation. speeds without the expense and restriction of keeping all •• Intelligent Memory. •• Mission-critical of the needed data in memory. availability. •• Virtualized interconnect. •• Complex and ad-hoc •• Virtualized storage. This proven, high-performance decision-support engine, query performance. •• Virtualized CPU. available in the widest array of deployment options, offers you a full suite of data access and management tools, •• In-database advanced •• File system. analytics, including plus world-class services based on Teradata’s years of •• Ease of manageability. geospatial, temporal, data warehouse experience. It’s a unique combination data mining, and •• Simplified mainframe of products and expertise that provides a time-tested modeling. integration. data warehousing solution—a solution that delivers many •• Complete support business advantages to you and your company. •• Mixed workload management (ability to infrastructure. keep data current and •• Reference accounts. handle strategic, tactical, •• Lowest total cost of and operational queries). ownership. An Array of Powerful Analytics “I would love to say that I spend half my When it comes to powerful analytics, Teradata Database time administering the Teradata system. is unmatched. That’s because it’s optimized to offer a Because when you consider the EDW’s range of analytical capabilities, everything from geospatial importance to the company, it should and temporal to slice-and-dice and data mining. The be half my time. But the truth is that I result? You can extract more value from your data, from spend a lot more time maintaining other more parts of your business, than ever. Plus, you can databases and performing other aspects of perform both general-purpose and specialized analyses in my job than I do working on the Teradata a database where all of your supporting data are available system. Teradata runs so well that it really to enrich your analytical processes. runs on its own. I don’t spend a lot of time managing it compared to the other And Teradata Database includes a variety of built-in databases that I am responsible for. It’s by features that makes it faster and more efficient to run a far the most important and yet it takes the wider scope of analytical processes, features that let you: least amount of effort to keep running.”

– Sandy Rumble, Data Center and •• Store and process geospatial data. With Teradata Operations Manager, PING, Inc. Database, your business intelligence (BI) and other applications can use location and proximity along with all the data dimensions you’re used to. Unlike specialized GIS or geospatial visualization products, of those analyses. Use of hybrid row/column table and Teradata Database can analyze geospatial data inside in-memory optimizations are applied automatically the data warehouse. That means all your enterprise along with other features for enhanced performance data are available. In addition to common geospatial without query modification or DBA intervention. capabilities, Teradata Database allows you to store •• Extend the scope of data stored in the data warehouse a series of points with timestamp information to and the data used in analyses. Store XML, JSON, and understand and analyze movement tracked by GPS Avro documents natively in the database and directly or other means. query the documents along with other data in the •• Easily maintain and base analyses on the changes in database for analysis using SQL. Late binding allows your business data. The temporal capability within JSON and Avro content to change over time without Teradata Database helps you cut through the costly, physical database changes. Issue common SQL queries complicated, and time-consuming effort needed to the Teradata Database and include joins of data to keep pace with changes in your business. It contained in Hadoop, Teradata Aster® Analytics, and replaces manual processes with automatic history- other common databases using Teradata QueryGrid™ tracking capabilities. For example, a retailer can for diverse analyses within the high-performance easily re-categorize a product—frozen dessert to ice Teradata Database. cream—and answer critical point-in-time business questions such as: How many customers did we have Built-in Business Benefits on a specific date? How many product categories? And how did our frozen dessert sales compare to the Teradata Database delivers benefits that provide a single same month last year? The temporal capability lets view of your business, a view that lets you make smarter, you optimize queries with time-based constraints. It faster decisions and realize top- and bottom-line growth. also makes it easy to complete compliance reports In fact, it will help you: that accurately reflect what you knew about your business on a certain date. Why? Because you have a Extend Decision Support Capabilities full view of your business history readily available with Teradata Database can enable more sophisticated BI a straightforward query. analysis by optimizing increasingly complex analytics •• Enhance cube processing, data mining, query and simplifying their development. That increased performance, and modeling. The ease-of-use and performance gets answers to users faster and processes optimization features built into Teradata Database save more work in the same time frame. you time and provide increased currency and frequency Ease Enterprise Integration Increase Performance for Operational Our enterprise extensions allow Teradata Database to Workloads fit better with your enterprise infrastructure. We also Teradata Database lets you acquire data faster than offer enhanced security and privacy capabilities that ever for more effective, timely decisions. We’ll show meet all consumer and regulatory legislation. And our you how to extend the operational use of your data enhanced accessibility for external sources, targets, and warehouse to more easily support front-line applications processes enables multiple language data warehouses and decision makers. for global corporations. Streamline Mixed Workload Management Extend the Capabilities of Teradata Database Optimize your data warehouse efficiency and improve Each industry, business, and application is unique. business responsiveness with streamlined management of Many incorporate unique types of data and analytic mixed workloads that will: functions. Within Teradata Database’s high-performance and scalable parallel architecture, you can extend the •• Automatically define workloads based on native capabilities with user-defined types, user-defined business needs. functions, user-defined SQL operators, stored procedures, •• Establish service level goals for multiple and table operators. Embed script program logic with workload types. special script table operators for Ruby, Perl, Python, R, or shell scripts to put application logic in the database •• Develop prioritization strategies according to for architectural flexibility. Store any type of data your business rules. business uses, or have a query automatically reach out •• Separate system resources into virtual partitions for for data stored in Hadoop or Oracle transaction systems departments, geographic regions, or funding models. and analyze it with all of the scalability and ease of •• Monitor adherence to your service level goals. management you expect from Teradata Database. Need More Reasons to Choose “We are serving dashboards that allow Teradata? decision makers to see what is happening on the system, how many subscribers there Teradata helps companies get more value from data than are and how much money the company any other company. Our big data analytic solutions and earns in a day.” team of experts can help your company gain a sustainable competitive advantage with data. – Vedat GüneŞ, Technical Project Manager, Türk Telekom For More Information

To learn more about how Teradata Database can help you build a better data warehouse—and a better business— call your Teradata representative, or visit Teradata.com. Teradata Database Specifications

Database Capacity Mainframe Integration •• Teradata Utility Pack •• 3TB - 234PB •• IBM (or compatible) mainframe •• Teradata Warehouse Miner (data mining) •• Up to 2,048 nodes Language Preprocessors •• Teradata Profiler Data Model •• PL/1, C, COBOL (data quality) •• Relational Tools and Utilities •• Teradata Analytic •• Schema-on-write Data Set Generator •• Teradata Management Portlets (data preparation) •• Schema-on-read •• Teradata Viewpoint •• R add-on for Teradata •• ANSI SQL compatible (web-based system (data mining) management portal) •• Full query parallelism •• Teradata Aggregate Designer •• Teradata Parallel Transporter •• Balanced performance (unified load utility for continuous, •• Teradata OLAP Connector for Excel Architectures Supported single, or multi-table loads from a variety of sources with script or •• Teradata BTEQ •• Symmetric multiprocessing programmatic controls) (basic query tool) (SMP) •• Teradata TPump •• Teradata SQL Assistant •• Massively parallel processing (continuous load) (basic query tool) (MPP) •• Teradata FastLoad •• Teradata Studio •• Public Cloud, private cloud, on (data loading) (query, DBA, and ad-hoc data premises, hybrid cloud •• Teradata MultiLoad loading tool) Operating Systems Supported (data loading) •• Teradata Unity •• Linux •• Teradata FastExport (multi-system ecosystem (data extraction) management, synchronization, Client Platforms Supported and query routing) •• Teradata Data Mover (data •• Microsoft® Windows® movement between systems) Application Programming Interfaces •• Apple® Mac OS •• Teradata Geospatial import/export •• ODBC Driver for Teradata •• IBM z/OS MVS •• Teradata Backup Archive and •• Teradata JDBC Driver Recovery Solutions •• Most UNIX® platforms •• Teradata CLI •• Teradata Active System •• Linux •• .NET Data Provider for Teradata Management Portlets •• Centos (mixed workload management) •• Teradata Plug-in for Eclipse •• Teradata Analyst Pack, including •• Teradata REST Services Teradata Visual Explain, Teradata •• JMS Adapter (JMS messaging System Emulation Tool, and system interface) Teradata Index Wizard

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