Teradata Reviews

We primarily use the solution for the EDW. 

The performance is the key item we appreciate. We're able to easily trigger jobs and we have access to integrations for running jobs. It's easy to use for the most part, which is why I really like it.

It's stable and reliable.

I've never had any issues with scalability.

The initial setup is pretty simple to set up. 

Apart from Control-M, it would be nice if it could integrate with other tools. Specifically, with respect to the integrations with the automation tools, if that can be increased, and if the tester could be able to test more automation scripts in a better way it would help. The efficiency could always be increased.

Occasionally, at the outset of the implementation process, we struggled a little bit.

I've only used the solution for a few months. It hasn't been a year yet. It hasn't been that long. 

The stability has been good so far. It's reliable and the performance is good. there are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

The solution seems to be scalable. I've never run into any issues with sizing. It's good.

I cannot recall the exact number of users that are on this solution currently. 

Technical support is quite good. We used them once or twice and, as I recall, their response was always very quick. We are quite satisfied with the level of service they offer. 

For the most part, the initial setup is good. We found it pretty straightforward. That said, sometimes, in the beginning, we struggle. 

For us, the deployment took around two hours. It didn't take too long. 

We had about ten members on the technical team that handled deployment and maintenance. 

We are able to handle the initial setup ourselves. As long there are not some prerequisites or system issues, then it's possible for us to handle everything.

I don't have any direct details about the licensing or pricing of the solution. 

I'm not sure of which version of the solution we're using. It might be a previous version. 

I'd recommend the solution to other users and organizations. 

I would rate the solution nine out of ten. We are quite pleased with its general capabilities. 

Primarily, Teradata is a traditional data warehouse, but we also encourage our customers to adapt to the logical data warehouse and data lab.

The most valuable feature is the ability to be anywhere - Teradata can be deployed on-premise, on the cloud, or in a virtual machine, which means customers can move without having to create their architecture all over again.

Teradata's pricing is quite high compared to Redshift, Synapse, or GCP alternatives. In the next release, I would like Teradata to refine their Object Store to be more compatible with cloud environments.

I've been working with Teradata since 2014.

Teradata's stability is very strong, and our customers feel their data is safe with it.

Teradata's scalability is good, it takes only the push of a button to scale up, and if that's not enough, you could scale with the cloud or a virtual machine.

The initial setup is straightforward if you have some knowledge about the logic of the environment. However, for those without knowledge, there will be a learning curve to understand how to use the solution.

Our customers say that Teradata makes them faster, smarter, and capable of more sophisticated analytics.

For anyone thinking of implementing Teradata, I would recommend preparing by understanding the technology and putting in the effort to keep it being adaptive to different and urgent requirements from your business. I would give Teradata a score of ten out of ten.

Teradata is primarily for data warehousing at large customers, like banks, retailers, and government organizations. However, we don't use Teradata for Russian government organizations because it's a US tool, and the Russian government doesn't allow foreign software.

Teradata features high productivity and reliability because it has several redundancy options, so the system is always up and running. 

Teradata needs to expand the kind of training that's available to customers. Teradata only offers training directly and doesn't delegate to any third-party companies. As a result, it's harder to find people trained on Teradata in our market relative to Oracle.

They should diversify their sales channels and develop more resellers. Teradata could also be more active in marketing because I rarely see any Teradata events in Russia. They've always had several regional conferences for Teradata users, but I hardly ever see marketing events geared toward new customers.

I've been working with Teradata for 11 years.

One of Teradata's biggest advantages is that it's fully scalable

We usually don't have any problems with Teradata itself. However, sometimes customers have issues with applications they've written themselves that aren't adequately designed to fully utilize Teradata's capabilities.

I would not say the setup is too complex. Teradata has a direct sales model, so Teradata employees usually set it up with help from the customer because they don't support a big system of resellers or partners. It's pretty easy because they are actively involved in the deployment. But later on, when the customer is expanding the solution and doing many things themselves, they make mistakes, which should be corrected using the support resources of Teradata.

Teradata is expensive, so it's typically marketed to big customers. However, there have been some changes, and Teradata is now offering more flexible pricing models and equipment leasing. They've added pay-as-you-go and cloud models, so it's changing, but Teradata is generally known as an expensive high-end product.

I rate Teradata eight out of 10. Customers need a certain amount of knowledge to correctly use Teradata when running their applications on the platform. They should also keep in mind the requirements for Teradata's features.

We use Teradata in our data warehouse and we extract data. We have a data department that uses many tools for data extractions.

Teradata has good performance, the response times are very fast. Overall the solution is easy to use. When we do the transformation, we have all of our staging and aggregation data available. 

Teradata could improve by providing better training. For example, Oracle provides good overall training. It is not easy to find information on the internet.

I have been using Teradata for approximately eight years.

The solution is stable. However, there are times when we are using large amounts of data and we can see some latency issues.

Teradata is scalable. We have two large servers and if we need to add new servers it can be done. Additionally, adding hard drive space or more performance is not a problem.

We have approximately 15 users using this solution in my organization.

The technical support is good but they could improve because sometimes they can take two weeks to resolve issues.

The implementation took approximately one month.

We did the implementation of Teradata using their support.

The price of the solution could be reduced, it is expensive.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Teradata a nine out of ten.

We are using this solution to check and validated our data.

The performance is great, we are able to query our data in one operation.

I would like to see more integration with many different types of data.

I have been using the solution for one month.

I have found the solution to be stable.

We have four users using the solution in my organization and we plan on increasing our usage.

The solution requires a license.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Teradata an eight out of ten.

We resell Teradata, but not in the cloud.

Currently, our experience with Teradata in the cloud is theoretical as we haven't started selling it to our customers yet; however, a few of our customers are interested in migrating to a cloud-based solution.

Our clients use Teradata to consolidate corporate data to provide reports. These reports are required every day — it's more like described analytics.

Our customers are very happy with the configuration. It's a pre-configured appliance that requires very little in terms of setting-up. 

It could use some more advanced analytics relating to structured and semi-structured data. In other words, there should be a process that makes advanced analytics easier.

The integration capabilities could be improved.

They should improve their marketing to make it easier to sell to customers.

I have been using Teradata for roughly five years.

Stability-wise, I don't recall any of our customers having a problem with Teradata. They have never mentioned any issues relating to bugs or glitches.

There are a few options that are very interesting related to the cloud. You can go into the same environment and add more nodes throughout it. As I mentioned, we don't have much experience with Teradata on the cloud, but I think it's the way of the future.

Their technical support is great. On a scale from one to ten, I would give them a rating of ten.

The initial setup is very easy.

Deployment takes a couple of weeks.

I would definitely recommend Teradata to other interested companies. It's really easy to use thanks to the simple configuration.

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give Teradata a rating of ten.

We primarily use the solution for data warehousing.

The loading time of the solution is quite good.

What really impressed me is their approach to design the data warehouse. It's very different from other solutions. They have their own methodologies for doing things, and they can come up with a very solid and good design that can stand the test of time.

The functionality of the solution is excellent.

The solution can scale.

It's quite a stable product.

On the product side, I don't think anyone can actually beat them with data warehousing.

I'm not sure about the unstructured data management capabilities. It could be improved.

They should, I think, try to do more of this open-source initiative to encourage more people to use it. Otherwise, it's my opinion that they might lose our business in the long run.

I've been using the solution for about three years at this point.

As one of the top companies in the world, the solution is very stable. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's quite good.

Product-wise the scalability and usability, is all excellent. They are the top players in this with their new database. The cloud helps make it so scalable. We're catching up and starting to scale, however, we aren't there yet.

I don't recall if the solution had a complex or straightforward setup. I wasn't part of the process.

I'm not sure if we would want to keep paying for the solution. They should make some of the software a community edition or something like that to encourage more people to use it.

This is a very good solution. 

After looking at the recent price drops, they need to offer very good discounts for people that bought it. The value proposition is actually quite good compared to many years ago. For most of the enterprises out there, they're focusing mainly on structure data. This solution ticks that box.

As long as they can control the price incrementally in the future, I think they're a very good strong platform.

I'd rate this product in terms of its functionality, stability, and scalability, as almost perfect. It's a nine out of ten. I don't think there's anything to complain about. It's only the price that's a sticking point for us.

We use this solution as a simple repository for all of the data that comes from multiple sources related to our organization. It has financial data, transactional data, customer complaint data, as well as customer feedback data. All of these are collected from different systems and they are consolidated for viewing within our management dashboards or for use in other analytics.

The most valuable feature is the ease of uploading data from multiple sources.

It performs well both in terms of speed and reliability.

It is hard for some of our users to set up rules for cleansing and transforming data, so this is something that could be improved. This is necessary because the data that comes from different sources has different formatting, and sometimes there is duplication. This means that some degree of transformation is required.

I would like to see more options for visualization so that the data can be better presented to management.

I have been using Aster Data Map Reduce for about two years.

For all of our users, this solution has been stable. It performs well.

In terms of scale, our data is not very big but we have have not encountered any problems with respect to scalability. We have between 30 and 40 users.

I have never been in touch with technical support.

While the initial setup can be complex, we are fine with it. It took us perhaps two or three days to deploy.

My team handled the deployment but I was not personally involved with it.

One or two people are required for maintenance, depending on their availability.

Before choosing this product we looked at both Apache and a solution from IBM. Ultimately, our team felt that this was more suitable for us.

My advice to anybody who is considering this solution would be to opt for the cloud version, rather than deploy on-premises. It is a better option.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Aster Teradata is mostly being used for doing mapping and I use it for analytics. Usually, there is a support vendor who will use Teradata to do the database analytics. But sometimes with Teradata, the DB administrators use it to get access to the libraries or the data processes.  

I mostly recommend Teradata for data storage because it is easy to deploy and implement.  

The most useful features are the base product functionality of data storage and analytics. The ease of deployment is also useful so clients are implemented quickly.   

I think that a couple of things can be improved with this product. One is, of course, that there should be an option for using it on the Cloud. A lot of customers ask me how they can get up and running fast, and this would be the fastest way with the least client effort. I know Teradata already has its own Cloud solution, but I think that is one area that needs more maturation and exploration. We need to do more testing before we begin to recommend it to clients and we can do this because we work directly with Teradata. We are using the Cloud solution and it is more scalable and also the costs are fairly elastic. It should be something we are using more with clients in the future.  

At an organization level, I think sometimes the support for development is not forthcoming. It should become more of a part of their ongoing process. If they dedicate more resources to developing along with the latest trends in the industry, Teradata could then bring that functionality out for the current customers and maybe attract other customers as well.  

I would say that the company should consider more capabilities in handling unstructured data in a better way. Right now most of the latest solutions that are coming to the market address the need for how to take unstructured data and create a standard map for that. I think that would really help. Right now, I only see most of the data through Teradata with its unstructured processing and some of it is not available. They can do more with this. I think Teradata's mappings are good and very easy to use. I would use it for customer databases as it is. But there still some ways that the handling of unstructured data could be improved and that would really help.  

I've been doing technical solutions for data integration for 22 years. We have a relationship with Teradata for 11 years — since 2008. We implement solutions and have a lot of experience with this product.  

My team has had the opportunity to work with technical support. I think it is fair to rate their services as a three-out-of-five. I think they are somewhat above average.  

I think the team has been very happy with the setup of Teradata from the system side.  

It is taking about a week for deployment. To sort out the clients' needs on the level of technical reports and the results usually takes about two weeks. That is in addition to creating the data warehouse and loading the data.  

The feedback I get from customers is the cost is high for what they get. In many cases, another product — other than Teradata — could be better for our clients cost-wise. This is why we are continuing to explore options to see if there are other, more cost-effective solutions. That is an area of the product from Teradata that they need to evaluate.  

Teradata has all the best features currently, but I think right now the market is really flooding with multiple options. Many customers have a need for rapid on-premise deployment. I think in that case I would recommend Teradata. But for smaller or medium-sized companies, there are probably other options out there that they might use instead which will fit better for their budget.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Aster Data MapReduce (Teradata) overall as maybe six or seven probably. Seven-out-of-ten.  

To improve that rating, I think we see that our customers have a lot of unstructured data. So in addressing that in a better way, Teradata would become an eight. It could possibly resolve this in a simple way with better integration in working directly with other solutions that are already available out there. This may be the best solution for that.  

Our primary use case for Teradata is reporting. I am a business analyst and I use this solution to first analyze my data and then visualize it. 

The most valuable feature is the ease of running queries. 

Automation is very important to us.

To run our reports I have to upload data from past tables and it is always a problem, so there is a lot of room for improvement there. It just struggles when I have to load data and I would like to see better file processing power.

I have seen instability in automation when working with very large datasets.

Technical support needs improvement.

I was been using Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse for three years.

Stability-wise, we have had some issues with automation and the ability to handle large datasets. 

We have approximately 800 people using this solution. We are not planning to increase usage at this time. In fact, we may be shifting to a different storage or different data warehouse.

I have contacted Teradata technical support lots of times. I would rate them a two out of five. They do not solve the problem, most of the time.

This solution was set up by our technical person.

We evaluated Microsoft SQL Server as a trial version and we thought that we preferred Teradata.

My advice for anybody who is considering this solution is first to look into the availability of customer support and make sure that it can be done. Teradata customer support in India is very bad. This is my main complaint.

Fixing the problems that I have mentioned would make this a great tool.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.