Teradata Metadata Services (MDS) is a comprehensive solution for managing metadata in data warehouse environments by enabling you to locate, consolidate, manage and navigate warehouse metadata. Teradata’s single, unified approach makes sense to technical and business users alike, helping you reduce training and development costs while increasing end-user self-sufficiency, system utilization and productivity while providing:
- Standardized data definitions
- Information sharing across the enterprise
- Impact analysis and reveal relationships between data elements
- Information about redundancies before they occur to eliminate duplication
- Data lineage information
- Consistency and quality
- Adherence to compliance and government requirements
- Employee self-service for search and discovery of information
Teradata MDS is the only metadata management solution optimized for and integrated with Teradata. The metadata repository is a set of tables, views and macros stored in a Teradata Database. Teradata MDS provides a blueprint of your warehouse data architecture, enables users to view the contents of the warehouse, and helps you understand the impact from schema changes prior to these changes actually being executed.
In addition, Teradata metadata models can be exchanged with data modeling tools or enterprise metadata repositories via XML or our own API. Teradata MDS helps identify impact analysis, change management and data redundancy, and provides model extensibility to meet your metadata management needs.
