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Teradata vs Yellowfin comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 27, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Teradata
Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
9th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
Customer Experience Management (6th), Backup and Recovery (20th), Data Integration (15th), Relational Databases Tools (8th), Data Warehouse (3rd), Marketing Management (6th), Cloud Data Warehouse (4th)
Yellowfin
Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
44th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Reporting (28th), Data Visualization (26th), Embedded BI (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Teradata is 0.9%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Yellowfin is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

RajeshKumar25 - PeerSpot reviewer
Harnessing advanced parallelism for top performance while embracing cloud trends
Teradata is primarily used for data warehousing across all customers. My clients have built-in applications that use Teradata, and their use varies from customer to customer, depending on the industry and database size. The primary function is as an OLAP analytical ecosystem Scalability is…
AC
It is a central source of up-to-date data and information, but needs more charting capabilities
Management information Reporting Statistics Data analysis It reduces sending copies of different report/spreadsheet versions over email, which makes it difficult to access the right report. It is also able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout.  All management…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It handles large amounts of information with a linear performance increase, in relation to a HW investment."
"Things have started moving faster in my company, such as data retrieval happens more quickly.​"
"The data processing, clustering, and distributed computing are impressive."
"The most valuable feature of Teradata is security. It runs on Unix and Linux platforms which provide better security."
"The feature that we find most valuable is its ability to perform Massive Parallel Processing."
"Their extensive experience in data warehousing, the platform's performance, and their strong reputation in the market are the most valuable."
"It's stable and reliable."
"It's a pre-configured appliance that requires very little in terms of setting-up."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
 

Cons

"Azure Synapse SQL has evolved from a solely dedicated support tool to a data lake. It can store data from multiple systems, not just traditional database management systems. On the other hand, Teradata has limitations in loading flat files or unstructured data directly into its warehouse. In Azure Synapse SQL, we can implement machine learning using Python scripts. Additionally, Azure Synapse SQL offers advanced analytical capabilities compared to Teradata. Teradata is also expensive."
"There is a need to improve performance in high transaction processes, as well as the reporting system."
"I'm not sure about the unstructured data management capabilities. It could be improved."
"The capability to implement it with comparable performance across various private cloud environments, ensuring adaptability to different infrastructure setups would be beneficial."
"​Their level of technical support is adequate. It could be better.​"
"It's primarily designed for big projects and therefore, the pricing is pretty high. It's not suitable for smaller companies."
"Teradata needs to pay attention to the cloud-based solution to make sure it runs smoothly."
"I would like more security and speed."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is substantial, totaling around $1.2 million, solely dedicated to upgrading the hardware."
"Make sure you have the in-house skills to design and support the solution, as relying on external sources is extremely costly and tends to lock you into specific platforms, tools, and paradigms."
"In this day and age, we want to get things done quickly. So, we go to the AWS Marketplace."
"The cost of running Teradata is quite high, but you get a good return on investment."
"We are looking for a more flexible cost model for the next version that we use, whether it be cloud or on-premise."
"The cost is significantly high."
"Price is quite high, so if it is really possible to use other solutions (e.g. you do not have strict requirements for performance and huge data volumes), it might be better to look at alternatives from the RDBMS world."
"Teradata is a very expensive solution."
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Comparison Review

it_user232068 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 5, 2015
Netezza vs. Teradata
Original published at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/should-i-choose-net Two leading Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architectures for Data Warehousing (DW) are IBM PureData System for Analytics (formerly Netezza) and Teradata. I thought talking about the similarities and differences…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
Educational Organization
16%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

Comparing Teradata and Oracle Database, which product do you think is better and why?
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