Teradata 13 Focuses on Advanced Analytic Performance (KDnuggets News 09:15, item 24, Briefs)

KDnuggets : News : 2009 : n15 : item24

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Teradata 13 Focuses on Advanced Analytic Performance

Intelligent Enterprise, Curt Monash, August 3, 2009

Last October I wrote about the Teradata 13 release of Teradata's database management software. Teradata 13, which will be used across the various Teradata product lines, has now been announced for GCA (General Customer Availability)*. So far as I can tell, there were two main points of emphasis for Teradata 13:

Performance (of course, performance is a point of emphasis for almost any release of any analytic DBMS product), especially but not only in the areas of aggregates, ETL (Extract/Transform/Load), and UDFs.
UDFs (User Defined Functions), especially but not only in the areas of data mining and geospatial analysis.

To put it even more concisely, the focus of Teradata 13 is on advanced analytic performance, although there of course are some enhancements in simple query performance and in analytic functionality as well.