What is Teradata(TD)?

·TD is a RDBMS in DW Environment.
·TD is an open system means that it is platform independent and satisfies industry standards.
·Compatible with industry ANSI standards.
·And it is currently available for the UNIX and WINDOWS operating system.
In this, for Teradata 13.0 version will support only windows7 32bit only. If you want to install in windows 7 64bit you should use VMvare.
And TD13.0 version is not supporting for windows XP. TD 12.0 version will install in XP o.s.

Check bellow table once.

	Windows 7 64bit	Windows 7 32bit	Windows XP
TD 13.0	Use  VMvare	It will support	Use VMvare
TD 12.0	VMvare	VMvare	It will support

·It will run on single or multiple nodes or severs.
·And it can act’s like a server.
·Built in parallelism (for this I will give you deep explanation in coming posts).
·Client platforms access the database through TCP-IP connection or across an IBM mainframe channel connection.
·Large database server.
·The Teradata Database was the first commercial database system to support a trillion bytes of data. 10^12= 1,000,000,000,000 (Trillion) bytes.
·Built on a parallel architecture.