The recently announced Forrester Wave: Big Data Hadoop Solutions Q1 2014 has Teradata positioned as a leader. This recognises Teradata as a vendor providing a clear Hadoop strategy with the Teradata Portfolio for Hadoop.
What sets the Teradata offering apart from the rest is the ability to not only store your Big Data in a low cost Hadoop platform but to be able to easily analyse this data either via the traditional Teradata platform or the Aster discovery platform using SQL-H.
There is a lot of talk about how ‘low-cost’ it is to store data in Hadoop but storing the data is not the be-all-and-end-all.
Being able to run analytics against the data is where the real benefits lie and currently most of the open-source options to do this are cumbersome and slow.
The Teradata Unified Data Architecture (UDA) provides a means to analyse your data wherever it is stored and any transfer of data can be done over a dedicated fast Infiniband network, thus not flooding your corporate network with huge amounts of data.
In fact, the UDA enables Teradata customers to not only store the data in the right place but also minimise or in some cases, eliminate the replication of data across the network. The Teradata goal is to store the data in the right place and bring the analytic to the data, whether the data sits in Hadoop or Teradata or anywhere else.
The Teradata Hadoop Appliance is a key component of the UDA and it is an area that will develop rapidly over the coming year.
Steven Lawton is a Senior Solution Architect for Teradata based in Melbourne where is responsible for technology & architecture within Teradata across Australia and New Zealand. Connect with Steven Lawton on Linkedin.
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