Teradata

This white paper explains the value scalability and performance, availability and reliability, and manageability deliver in an effective enterprise data warehouse platform.

This white paper describes two architectural alternatives for the national IT infrastructure, namely distributed database and enterprise data warehousing.

This white paper provides an overview of the security features and describes scenarios for their usage. The paper will also discuss the independent evaluation of the Teradata Database to the international Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (ISO 15408) Standard.

An Active Data Warehouse built with Teradata Servers and the Teradata Database offers levels of data availability expected in a world-class operational system. An ADW with Fallback achieves levels of single system availability unmatched by other RDBMS vendors.

This white paper describes how single-level partitioned primary indexes, introduced in Teradata Database V2R5 and extended to multiple levels in Teradata Database 12.0, provide an opportunity to improve performance of certain queries and to improve the performance of high-volume insert, update, and delete operations.

Neil Raden gives guidance in the best way to propose data warehouse/BI expenditures to CEOs/senior management.

This paper describes the results from functionality and basic performance testing of SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services leveraging Teradata v12. This paper is targeted at Business Intelligence (BI) administrators, system integrators and database administrators.

William McKnight describes Teradata appliances for mid-size companies' use in data warehousing and business intelligence.