Teradata Reviews and Pricing

it_user263427

EDW Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 28, 2015

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Query tuning is simple, but this is a costly solution.

What is most valuable?

It is simple for me as a developer
Query tuning is simple.

How has it helped my organization?

It's simple to use and scalable.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for eight years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues encountered.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues encountered.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No issues encountered.

What about the implementation team?

We used a vendor team who were 7/10.

What was our ROI?

The speed has been increased.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We also looked at Hadoop.

What other advice do I have?

It's simple but costly. However, this doesn't concern me as I have to develop applications. My employer can give me any product and I will learn and develop with it. Almost all database products are 80% same.

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

it_user108795Business Proces Analyst with 10,001+ employees

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Jul 6, 2015

It's not that simple. Everytime you add data to a table (extra columns) you might have to change or make additional join indexes. While other databases like IBM PDA or HP Vertica you dont have to do that, for me those require less dba work.

it_user75045

Head of Information management with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 28, 2014

Working with Teradata, Cognos and Informatica is a positive combination of good tools but implementation can be complex

I have been using Teradata and Cognos for the past 8 years and Informatica ETL tool for 1 year. I have found that the analytical CRM functionalities from Teradata using Teradata database has been the most valuable feature of this product. It has helped the way my organization functions in that we build a data warehouse to have a single version of the truth with all the needed aggregations, and all the analytical reports are now using this database which leads to consistent data. Additionally, all the analytical reports are now generated using Cognos BI tool which is very powerful and the business powerful users can build their own analytical reports.

My company had previously used a different solution before Informatica and we are still in the transition phase, ETL from data stage. Before choosing this product we evaluated Informatica, Oracle ODI and our current ETL data stage. We switched because Informatica is better in terms of tool, support, and at the same time, because we bought Informatica data quality tool for the data governance dept after vendor selection process. During the deployment of Informatica ETL there were some performance issues but they were solved.

Regarding the level of technical support, I would say that for Teradata it is average, for Cognos and Informatica it is good. The initial set up for Teradata was a little bit complex due to some specific applications used in my country while for Cognos, it was straightforward. For Informatica, the initial set up was a little bit complex due to the different environment where the tool has to be implemented. We always implemented in-house but in collaboration with a vendor team and found that their level of expertise was good. My advice to others concerning Teradata, it is a powerful product to build a data warehouse in the organization, but take into consideration that Teradata is using its own hardware to have a good performance. I have found that Informatica’s data quality is the best tool to profile, clean and monitor the data.

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it_user6330

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.

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reviewer2088057

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.