Teradata Query Grid : Connection with different systems ( Database , NoSQL , Hadoop )

Teradata 15.0 has come up with many new exciting features and enhanced capabilities  . Teradata Query Grid is one of them.

Teradata database now able to connect Hadoop with this Query Grid so it’s called as Teradata Database-to-Hadoop also referred as  Teradata-to-Hadoop connector.

Key Importance of Teradata Query Grid is to Put Data in the Data Lake FAST across foreign servers.

What is Query Grid?

Query Grid works to connect a Teradata and Hadoop system to massive scale, with no effort, and at speeds of 10TB/second.

·         It provides a SQL interface for transferring data between Teradata Database and remote Hadoop hosts.

Teradata NPARC (Named Pipe ARChive)

Brief Introduction to Teradata:

Teradata is a fully scalable relational database management system produced by Teradata Corp. It is widely used to manage large data warehousing operations. 

The Teradata database system is based on off-the-shelf symmetric multiprocessing technology combined with communication networking, connecting symmetric multiprocessing systems to form large parallel processing systems.

What happens when business data grows?

Sometimes, working in IT we need to upgrade entire configurations of our systems or servers to get in sync with business requirements. As a growing IT, data is also growing and for that we may need to get rid of old configuration systems or servers and for that we need to migrate the existing business data.