Teradata Reviews and Pricing

Product Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

May 2, 2013

Teradata Data Lab - An agile analytics enabler

Data scientists & business analysts need an exploratory environment in which they can create databases without having to go through production processes such as data governance, data architecture and complex ETLing. At eBay, we have built a set of self-service tools that allow analysts to create managed lab environments (called Virtual datamarts), to upload data into those environments, to specify views in the lab environment that access data from production databases and to facilitate data movement within and across systems.

The Teradata Data Lab product has similar capabilities:

1. A team owner can provision a Lab Group for a team. A Lab group has certain configurable properties like size and expiration date.
2. The lab group owner can give permissions to other users to create databases in the lab group. The lab group owner can optionally setup an approval workflow to govern changes occurring within the lab group.
3. Lab group users can import data into the lab environment from various sources.
4. Admins can provide TASM rules to easily govern the lab environment.
5. Users have clear visibility on the usage of the lab group.
6. Data migration tools simplify migrating content from the lab group to production.

Such a managed exploratory environment offers benefits such as reduced cost, greater agility & better system utilization. Consider this product to provide more agility and self-service to your Data scientists and Business analysts.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Tejas Talele

Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Aug 18, 2022

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Secure, reliable, and migrates data well

Pros and Cons

"The most valuable feature of Teradata is security. It runs on Unix and Linux platforms which provide better security."

"Teradata could improve by being less complicated. There are some aspects that are not available on the Unix server and a Unix system is required to access some data, such as in case of an emergency."

What is our primary use case?

The purpose that we are using Teradata for is to migrate data to the cloud.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of Teradata is security. It runs on Unix and Linux platforms which provide better security.

What needs improvement?

Teradata could improve by being less complicated. There are some aspects that are not available on the Unix server and a Unix system is required to access some data, such as in case of an emergency.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Teradata for approximately one year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Teradata is stable.

I rate the stability of Teradata a seven out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have more than 1,000 people using Teradata in my company.

How are customer service and support?

I have not used the support from Teradata.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of Teradata is not simple.

What about the implementation team?

We have different teams of approximately 200 people total that are supporting Teradata in many cities and branches.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price of Teradata could be less expensive.

I rate the price of Teradata a seven out of ten.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We did not evaluate other vendors before choosing Teradata.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Teradata an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Feb 1, 2023

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Processes larges data amounts, reliable, helpful online videos

Pros and Cons

"The most valuable feature of Teradata is the quick processing of large data."

"The solution could improve by having a cloud version or a cloud component. We have to use other solutions, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Snowflake for the cloud."

What is our primary use case?

I am using Teradata Vantage Express and I'm using Teradata Studio along with it.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of Teradata is the quick processing of large data.

What needs improvement?

The solution could improve by having a cloud version or a cloud component. We have to use other solutions, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Snowflake for the cloud.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Teradata for approximately one week.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Teradata has high scalability.

I am the only one testing the solution in my company.

I rate the scalability of Teradata a ten out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

I have not used the support.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was done with the free Teradata Express. I downloaded and installed it. The implementation process was not easy to do and there are many steps involved. Other data warehousing tools are plug-and-play. It is a three to four-step process.

We followed some useful YouTube videos.

I rate the initial setup of Teradata a five out of ten.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I am using the free version of Teradata.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Teradata a ten out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.