Name: Teradata
Brand: Teradata
Rating: 4.1 (83 reviews)

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.

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

Feb 1, 2023

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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.