Teradata Reviews

Its primary use is a superfast database.

Things have started moving faster in my company, such as data retrieval happens more quickly.

We really enjoy the FastLoad, TPump, and MultiLoad features.

I think the UI is not there yet. It could be improved by being more user-friendly.

It is faster than Oracle, and that is what we need.

We have improved our daily/monthly reporting, campaign management, and behavior analysis.

Performance when processing terabytes of data.

• Licensing
• Architecture openness
• Integration with other tools

No stability issues.

Teradata's key strength is it's scalability.

Excellent. The support covers all aspects of hardware/software usage.

Oracle's performance in processing large amounts of data is very poor and we had to choose new technology.

Complex. The process requires multiple meetings and all teams working together.

Teradata is expensive but gives value for money, especially if you don't want to move your data to the cloud.

IBM, Oracle.

If you have purchased the hardware/software, focus on architecture and the design of data layers.

Improved performance of ETL procedures, reporting. Decreased efforts, time, and number of staff supporting DWH.

• Scalability
• Functionality
• Performance

GUI of administrative tools is really outdated.

Nothing major, as far as I can recall.

No issues, scalability is a key feature of Teradata.

Support is on par with other vendors.

We used Oracle. Scalability and performance were the reasons we decided to try Teradata.

It was easy, the whole job was done by Teradata.

It is still a very expensive solution. While I very much like the pure technological supremacy of the software itself, I believe Teradata as a company needs to become more affordable. They are already losing the market to more flexible or cheaper competitors.

We did performance testing. We had a set of real life MicroStrategy reports. Our conditions were: Not allowed to redesign data model, not allowed to rewrite the queries, all queries should be generated by MicroStrategy, no aggregates. Teradata appeared to be way faster than a similarly configured (in terms of hardware) Oracle server.

Go with the Enterprise series and don't waste time and money on 25xx. Sooner or later you will migrate anyway, so don't even start with departmental solutions.

1. "Parallel Everything” design and smart Teradata Optimizer enables fast query execution across platforms.
2. Fully parallel MPP “shared nothing” architecture scales linearly across data, users, and applications, providing consistent and predictable performance and growth.
3. In-database data mining, virtual OLAP/cubes, geospatial and temporal analytics, custom and embedded services in an extensible open parallel framework, drive efficient and differentiated business insight.
4. Workload management options by user, application, time of day, and CPU exceptions.
5. Teradata Columnar/Teradata Temporal.
6. Compress on cold and intelligent multi-temperature data management.
7. Enhanced security.
8. Customer driven innovation in application migration and temporal.
9. Intelligent Scan Elimination.

Teradata solutions help organizations reduce IT, operations, and maintenance costs; enhance on-time delivery of products and services.

Teradata has proven technology with significant advantages in some key areas, and greater depth and experience in providing industry knowledge and solutions.

There is some improvement required on OLTP level and some analytical function is missing.

I've used it for almost five years.

Did not encounter any issues during deployment.

No stability issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Customer Service:

They deliver the products to customers faster and with greater accuracy, i.e. within the agreed-upon due date .

Technical Support:

Teradata already had a excellent customer satisfaction and the rating would be eight out of 10.

No other solution used.

Teradata setup is straightforward and simple.

The implementation done mainly with the in-house teams and also some support of vendor team.

100%.

Teradata is easy-to-use for data warehouse and BI application. It's extremely fast and also advanced analytics work can be done in a very flexible manner.

We also looked at Oracle Exadata.

Teradata provides the analytical performance we need through its “parallel everything” design and industry leading optimizer to intelligently process all types of analytical and business intelligence queries.

It is a solid database a lot of different tools to move data.

Basically, Teradata has allowed the multiple businesses that I have consulted for to build and store their Data Warehouse related data efficiently. It also serves up the data quickly, if tuned and organized properly.

Cost, but Teradata is currently making improvements in this area.

Nine years.

Most of the organizations that I have consulted with have a 99.9% up time. The product is very stable.

Teradata is great as far as scalability once you have the product. You can move space on the fly. However, adding additional space once your disks are full in the past was expensive. I believe that they are addressing this issue by allowing you to buy only the hardware (disk space, node, amps) you need and not having to perform a total upgrade.

This depends on your service agreement. If you have tier 1 support, you are guaranteed to have full support at any moment.

I was not in a position as a consultant to make solution decisions.

I have never setup a Teradata box personally.

I am not in a position to share licensing costs.

I was not in a position as a consultant to make software solution decisions.

Get educated about the product.

Stats, QueryGrid Autostats with collecting stats automatically with the threshold values assigned, QueryGrid has multiple new features i.e data migration, extraction, tool loading, other utilities.

Business, Analytics, Hybrid.

It should be compatible and free on CLOUD/ AWS. Currently many DB's on AWS are free , Teradata is also on Amazon Web Services, but its charged and no documentation available to practice those LABS .

5 years.

No issues.

No issues.

No issues.

8/10

Larger data warehouse / reporting and compatibility to analytics.

It was straightforward.

It architects the databases well. Right from data modelling, the correction appliance to be chosen, the queries hitting the system, strategic, tactical etc, and that business knowledge should be easy to understand to end developers.

I found all parts --loading, transformation, processing & querying work in parallel, and end-to-end-- to be valuable.

Vodafone Spain tried to migrate a very populated data mart platform from Sybase IQ to Oracle. Unfortunately, they failed at this job. But more than 20 Sybase IQ database engines (with their respective licence, support costs, etc.) were successfully integrated into one single Teradata ecosystem.

The cloud is the new challenge and the new opportunity.

I have designed Teradata EDWH solutions for more than 16 years.

I did not encounter any issues at all.

I did not encounter any issues at all.

I would rate the level of technical support 10/10.

I have previous experience with Oracle/Informix/Sybase. For large EDWH solutions, Teradata is the best. Oracle solutions are multipurpose oriented and Td is EDWH oriented from the beginning.

The initial cost may seem high, but the TCO is low.

I mainly evaluated Oracle.

I recommend starting with a clean and normalized business model that is capable of addressing business questions. Teratada (and its consultants) will do the rest.

Good data warehousing solution. Workload Management (TASM) and Viewpoint.

As it is a data warehousing solution, many reporting sessions and users can run simultaneously without much performance degradation. The product is more helpful in historical analysis and customer behavior trends for the organisation.

Query Log maintenance should be free in all versions and should be made easy.

Seven years.

Regarding stability, Teradata comes bundled with hardware and software. There are fewer bugs in the software and most of the hardware failure mechanisms are addressed at the hardware level, so users experience less downtime.

Average.

Complex. My experience was the Teradata Solution Architects were less friendly and hid information and charged for simple things.

Pricing is bit on higher side. They have come up with a licencing model recently.

It is a good solution.