Teradata Room for Improvement

SurjitChoudhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Data engineer at Cocos pt

Teradata is an expensive tool. Like, if you're already using Microsoft products like Windows, they'll market all their products together. And with the rise of cloud technologies, companies will adopt solutions that offer them some privileges or facilities. 

Similar to how SAP does it in the market, so do Microsoft and other companies.  Even Oracle and other such tools are quite commonly seen compared to Teradata's competitors in everyday solutions.

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BS
Solution Architect at Capgemini

In our experience with Teradata, we haven't seen any significant weaknesses. However, when it comes to scalability, limited interest and success in some areas make us hesitate about upgrading. In the future, I would like to see Teradata incorporate features that allow it to handle unstructured data. Additionally, improvements in documentation to make it more user-friendly and up-to-date would enhance the overall user experience.

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MedhaValvekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Manager at Cognizant

Teradata is good, but eventually, my company is moving to a higher-level system. You wouldn't want to work on a lower-level system.

As for the areas for improvement in Teradata, since I was working on the very basic, legacy systems, the memory thing was always a challenge. If Teradata is moving to the cloud, the space constraint or the memory issue that my company generally faces will eventually resolve, in time.

What I'd like to see in the next release of Teradata is that it becomes full-fledged on the cloud, apart from better connectivity to various systems. For example, if I have to read or include a Python script, if I write some basic codes, I should be able to read even unstructured data. I know that it's not supported even in Snowflake, but at least semi-structured data support, if that can be a little more enhanced, that would be good.

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MartinPotgieter - PeerSpot reviewer
Services Manager at Bytes Systems Integration

The setup is not straightforward.

I would like Teradata to get involved in South Africa. They aren't doing aggressive promotion of Teradata systems in South Africa. They really should.

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AhmedAdel4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product owner at Future Work

The current operational approach needs improvement. In the past, relying on infrastructure data staging provided flexibility in collaborating with any database provider. However, transitioning to Informatica and integrating it with various data services proved beneficial for serving multiple clients. Despite its advantages, this approach incurred substantial costs in terms of hardware and technical expertise. To address this, there is a need to develop and offer free content and workshops, providing guidelines and technical knowledge for efficient data operation.

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Asish Sahu - PeerSpot reviewer
SPM at Infosys

Teradata can improve the way it handles big data and unstructured data.

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Rupal Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect at Three Ireland (Hutchison) - Infrastructure

Sometimes the large ingestion jobs takes days to load data, and some of our stored procedures take longer. I don't know whether it's the tool or the network, but it takes a long time to execute complex commands.

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NT
Data Engineer at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees

Teradata hardly supports unstructured data or semi-structured data. Teradata is very costly, and it's not easy to upgrade or expand the components in Teradata. A lot of infrastructure needs to be set up in order to use Teradata.

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MG
Vice President IT Architecture at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

One issue we've identified is that its performance varies across different on-premises setups and doesn't consistently meet our standards. This limitation necessitates the purchase of Teradata's proprietary hardware to ensure the desired level of performance. The capability to implement it with comparable performance across various private cloud environments, ensuring adaptability to different infrastructure setups would be beneficial.

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Al Krause - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at advanced business horizons

Any value this product provides is offset by the high cost and lack of scalability. We're moving to Snowflake because of the scalability and cost differentials. There are better, more flexible, robust, and economical options out there.

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JP
Data warehouse consultant at Profinit

I'd like to see a better relationship with the business itself. Business users have trouble finding solutions when they run into issues in the data warehouse.

It can be a bit complex to work with.

Regarding data warehousing, I'd like to see more data and business analysis to help with the design and development. 

It's primarily designed for big projects and therefore, the pricing is pretty high. It's not suitable for smaller companies. 

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Blaine VandeBerg - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal at Insight Data Consulting

I've been using the same UI for 20 years in Teradata. It could use some updating. Adding more stability around Teradata Studio would be outstanding. Teradata Studio is a Java-based version of their tool. It's much better now, but it still has some room for improvement.

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AM
Data Engineer III at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The market is enhancing, and every day, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, and all these competitors are moving very, very fast. They're bringing out many new features. For example, Snowflake now has Time Travel and cloning and all these very interesting features. Teradata is an old data warehouse, and they're not improving in terms of new, innovative features. Basically, they're pretty much consistent and unchanging. They're not bringing new features. I've been working with it for eight years, and I have not seen so many new features. Maybe there have been only one or two in the last eight years. Innovation is something that is a bit slow with respect to Teradata. Other competitors are better in terms of new innovations. I'd like to see Teradata add features like cloning or time travel.

There is a query tool. However, we need to install the tool in order to fetch records. With other data warehouses, they have a web-based tool that allows for queries without having to download.

The initial setup is not too easy.

When we want to scale, we need to go to Teradata to initiate the process. 

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Anton Van Heerden - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at DNA Payroll Outsourcing

An area that needs improvement is the cloud-based version of the solution because it's designed for on-prem and then transferred to the cloud version. Teradata needs to pay attention to the cloud-based solution to make sure it runs smoothly. In the next release, I would like Teradata to be cloud-agnostic in order to not limit customers' choices.

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Rajdeep Biswas - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect - Sr. Manager at Axtria - Ingenious Insights

Teradata's UI could be more user-friendly.

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SD
Test Engineer at cigniti

Apart from Control-M, it would be nice if it could integrate with other tools. Specifically, with respect to the integrations with the automation tools, if that can be increased, and if the tester could be able to test more automation scripts in a better way it would help. The efficiency could always be increased.

Occasionally, at the outset of the implementation process, we struggled a little bit.

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AY
Data Architect, Section Head at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I'm not sure about the unstructured data management capabilities. It could be improved.

They should, I think, try to do more of this open-source initiative to encourage more people to use it. Otherwise, it's my opinion that they might lose our business in the long run.

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it_user525360 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Programmes Architect at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

The increasing volumes of data demand more and more performance. I truly believe that in five years, we will breach the effective limits of Teradata to perform in a multi-petabyte environment, i.e., without significant changes to its underlying architecture. If this occurs, we will be forced to migrate to a more traditional platform (such as IBM Informix).

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HM
Big data administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Teradata could improve by providing better training. For example, Oracle provides good overall training. It is not easy to find information on the internet.

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AK
Teradata Team Leader at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Data synchronization to the DR site.

My company’s management has to decide whether to invest in this area. This is more an internal issue at the company and definitely not a problem with the Teradata product. If we end up migrating to another platform, this will be the reason.

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KA
Solution Sales and Lead Information at TechAccess Asia Distribution

There are lots of improvements that Teradata is working on and many that have already been done. However, recently I was in a session with people who are working on the data sciences side of the business. The data science group is not using the Teradata modeling features. Rather, they are using third-party tools for the prediction and forecasting models that they are building. Teradata should focus on functionality for building predictive models because, in that regard, it can definitely improve.

In my experience with Teradata, I have seen their sales strategy and that needs to change. As an organization marketing a product, they need to be cloud-focused instead of the on-premises thinking that they currently have.

There are a few things where you are totally dependent on the customer service and support from Teradata. This is an area where they really need to improve a bit, especially when you're talking about cloud service integration. Depending on the environment you may need to contact the AWS team, or the Azure team, or the GCP team, or the Teradata team. In all of these environments, improvements need to be made.

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AO
Operations Lead at a retailer with 201-500 employees

Teradata is a bit late for the cloud. They maybe need to have some room for cloud improvements.

Scalability is limited on-premises. 

The solution could use more AI support.

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NV
Business Intelligence Project Leader at NOUX C.A.

Teradata's pricing is quite high compared to Redshift, Synapse, or GCP alternatives. In the next release, I would like Teradata to refine their Object Store to be more compatible with cloud environments.

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it_user845499 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Performance Systems at Telstra

We are using an older version at the moment. We are looking for a more flexible cost model for the next version that we use, whether it be cloud or on-premise.

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it_user291063 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Teradata DBA at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I'd like to see better processing on a transactional level and star schema optimization.

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MR
Sr. Data Management Specialist at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Teradata's UI could be improved.

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it_user6057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Java Developer at EPAM Systems at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

GUI of administrative tools is really outdated.

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SD
Solution Lead at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

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

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it_user710166 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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

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it_user689559 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Business Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The SQL Assistant is very basic. This tool can be improved for usability.

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MP
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Teradata needs to expand the kind of training that's available to customers. Teradata only offers training directly and doesn't delegate to any third-party companies. As a result, it's harder to find people trained on Teradata in our market relative to Oracle.

They should diversify their sales channels and develop more resellers. Teradata could also be more active in marketing because I rarely see any Teradata events in Russia. They've always had several regional conferences for Teradata users, but I hardly ever see marketing events geared toward new customers.

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EK
Sr Lead Data & Information Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability could be better. The on-premises solution is always more complicated to scale.

The flexibility could be improved. The product is good if you know what you're planning to do. If you're designing as well, upfront, then it's fine. However, if you've made a mistake in the design work or your system, then it could be quite complex and expensive, and it may not preform well.

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it_user718455 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst / Data Engineer

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

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Tejas Talele - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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.

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KG
Associate Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

I would like to see more integration with many different types of data.

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NV
Business Intelligence Project Leader at NOUX C.A.

It could use some more advanced analytics relating to structured and semi-structured data. In other words, there should be a process that makes advanced analytics easier.

The integration capabilities could be improved.

They should improve their marketing to make it easier to sell to customers.

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GM
Teradata FSLDM Consultant at TIK IT Solutions

The user interface needs to be improved.

The price needs to be more competitive as Hadoop, Redshift, Snowflake, etc are constantly making way into EDW space.

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RC
Associate Consultant at BT5 Business & Technology 5 Consulting
  • A more transparent integration with Aster solutions.
  • An even deeper focus in data sciences.
  • A teaching web site with more training on third-party tools used for BI (data sciences).
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MH
Analytics Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The solution overall needs improvement in its stability, support and pricing. 

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

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.

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it_user702450 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager BI Development at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Licensing
  • Architecture openness
  • Integration with other tools
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it_user310206 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Query language and its functionality are rather limited, compared to Oracle or even SQL Server. However, it is possible to perform any kind of logic in it (though some workarounds may be required).

Data ingestion is done via external utilities and not by the query language itself. It would be more convenient to have that functionality within its SQL dialect.

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it_user277488 - PeerSpot reviewer
Professional Services Senior Consultant at a tech services company

The cloud is the new challenge and the new opportunity.

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it_user427224 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Concurrency is still a challenge, pricing is still high.

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it_user692277 - PeerSpot reviewer
Teradata Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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 .

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it_user685356 - PeerSpot reviewer
Teradata Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The Query Response time needs improving.

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EB
Technical Manager at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

There is a need to improve performance in high transaction processes, as well as the reporting system.

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it_user142503 - PeerSpot reviewer
SystemAnalyst

Compatibility with more Big Data platforms.

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SM
Teradata DBA|Data Engineer Specialist|Hadoop Admin at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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

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it_user1210803 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

What really needs to improve, is their general cloud services. That is their biggest downfall at the moment. 

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it_user1076391 - PeerSpot reviewer
Auditor Federal de Finanças e Controle at CGU

I would like to see an improved Knowledge Base on the web.

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it_user777930 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
  • Cost
  • Scalability

It would help to make scaling easier with a reduced cost.

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Teradata
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Teradata. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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