This document discusses Teradata, an RDMS designed for large commercial databases. It provides a brief history of Teradata starting in 1979 and its acquisition by NCR in 1992. It also lists versions released from 2002-2012 and their new features. The advantages are its parallel processing capacity to handle large loads and queries concurrently. It has a shared nothing architecture providing high fault tolerance. Disadvantages include its lack of suitability for small transactions and higher costs. The conclusion states Teradata makes creating and dropping tables easy for data warehousing.

2.  WHAT IS TERADATA ?
 HISTORY
 TERADATA ARCHITECTURE
 VERSIONS
 APPLICATIONS
 ADVANTAGES
 DIS-ADVANTAGES
 CONCLUSION

3.  Teradata is an RDMS ,It has been designed to run
the world’s largest commercial databases
 Compatible with ANSI industry standards
 Acts like as server
 Runs on single or multiple nodes
 Its an open system which can be run on UNIX MP-
RAX, Linux and Windows O.S
 Build on parallelism

4.  1979 -Teradata was founded in Los Angels
 1982 -BYNET technology is pantented.
 1984 - Teradata markets the first database
computer DBC/1012
- First system purchased by wills fargo bank of
California.
 1992 –Teradata is merged into NCR
 1997 –Teradata database becomes the industry
leader in data warehousing.

10. NAME YEAR OF RELEASED FEATURES
TD V2R5 2002 Profiles , multi-value
compression and more
TD V2R5.1 2003 UDFs ,BLOBs ,CLOBs
TD V2R6 2005 Collect statistics
enhancement
TD 12 2007 Query Rewrite
TD 13 2009 Scalar Subquery ,NOPI
TD 13.10 2010 Calendar functions
TD 14 2012 Analytical power,
flexibility,scalability

13. We can expand the database
capacity by just adding more
nodes to the existing database .

14. Teradata has extensive Paralell processing
capacity ,it can handle multiple requests
and many concurrent users .
Teradata database has shared nothing
architecture ,it has high fault tolerance
and data protection .

15. 1. It is not suitable for small transactions OLTP
databases .
2. Teradata development and DBA resources are
harder to come by and more expensive .
3. Teradata is not as open as Oracle in Tech ,it is a
enterprise application , not as widely used as
Oracle or Sybase .
4. It’s not really a consideration for enterprise
software .

16.  Teradata makes it easy to create and drop tables .
 It can be easily create and maintain the tables in a
Data warehouse .
 Teradata provides to enhance your data
warehouse environment .