What Is Teradata?

You know how you're always trying to get more people to your parties, but you need help finding the right way to get the word out? We could have been a little more secrative about it but there is a solution for you: Teradata. It's a database system that lets you efficiently manage large data warehousing operations. It even has its party planner! Teradata is a relational database management system produced by Teradata Corp. It contains large data warehousing operations and does that very well! Teradata's scalable architecture allows it to handle the needs of large IT organizations with millions of transactions per second or even more. It can also be scaled down to suit smaller businesses looking for a more straightforward solution. Teradata was developed in the 1970s and used to manage large databases. The company behind it, Teradata Corp., was founded in 1982 and has offices worldwide. The system is designed to handle large amounts of information and perform complex analyses on that data, so it's often used for complex analytics projects that require a lot of processing power. The Teradata database system is established on off-the-shelf symmetric parallel technology, combined with communication and networking, connecting symmetric multiprocessing systems to form sizeable similar processing systems. Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) involves using multiple processors in a single computer system, each with its memory and all connected via a common bus. These processors can be configured in several ways: one giant shared memory (cache), multiple non-shared memories (separate caches), or even non-shared memories with different buses. SMP systems are typically used for database management, scientific computing and numerical analysis applications. Teradata uses SMP technology to build a database management system capable of scaling thousands of processors using tens of terabytes of RAM and petabytes of storage space.