Teradata

The massively parallel data warehouse that big enterprises have run for decades, now also as Teradata VantageCloud. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.

Category
database engine
Developer
Teradata
Created by
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First release
1984
License
Proprietary
Open source
No
Pricing
Paid
Website
https://www.teradata.com
Written in
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Data model
Relational
Storage layout
Hybrid row and column
Workload
Analytics (OLAP)
Analytics architecture
Data warehouse
Query language
SQL
ACID transactions
Yes
Schema
Strict
Deployment
Distributed cluster, Managed cloud
Scaling
Natively distributed
Create, read, update, delete
Create: fast (Parallel bulk loads with FastLoad and TPT); Read: fast (Massively parallel scans and joins); Update: moderate (Fine in bulk, costly row by row); Delete: moderate (Fine in bulk, costly row by row)

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