The fastest, most powerful data warehouse platform family just got better

Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the world’s largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, today announced general availability of Teradata 13, which includes Teradata Database 13, Teradata Tools and Utilities 13, services and partnerships. It is Teradata’s most significant and advanced release in terms of new lines of code, features that drive additional capabilities, customer value and a remarkable performance boost. Already recognized as the market leader, Teradata 13 provides customers an even more affordable foundation for a wide range of business analytics, which supports both departmental and enterprise intelligence for companies of all sizes.

“We packed Teradata 13 with 93 new innovative features achieving an overall performance improvement up to 30 percent. Teradata 13 software performance has more than doubled based on improvements in the last three years. If we consider the combination of software and hardware platform performance, Teradata 13 performance is seven times faster over that same time period,” said Scott Gnau, head of development, Teradata Corporation. “This performance and capability pays big, tangible dividends for our customers by helping them to out-maneuver their competitors.”

“With Teradata 13, Teradata continues its dominance of the high end of analytic data warehousing and is now positioned to capture substantial business up and down the scalability ladder. Having long ago proven its superior total cost of ownership, Teradata now packs more in database features than any other product,” said Neil Raden, founder of Hired Brains. “A data warehouse must deliver analytical muscle, not just scalable storage. Teradata 13’s ability to balance complex workloads is key to this effort. The addition of geospatial and temporal capabilities will provide Teradata customers with entirely new opportunities for business models.”

Performance

Teradata 13 provides an overall improvement up to 30 percent for query processing, with some workloads running up to 20 times faster than on the previous database version. The Teradata 13 query optimizer has been improved allowing queries to run faster and consume fewer resources. The query optimizer interprets a query and determines the most efficient way for the database to process it providing business users with a rapid response to their queries.