Access Module Processor - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

Database Introduction

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.05
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-01-23
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

The AMP vproc manages Teradata Database interactions with the disk subsystem. Each AMP manages a share of the disk storage.

AMP functions include… For example…
database management tasks
  • Accounting
  • Journaling
  • Locking tables, rows, and databases
  • Output data conversion
During query processing:
  • Sorting
  • Joining data rows
  • Aggregation
file system management disk space management.

Each AMP, as represented in the following figure, manages a portion of the physical disk space. Each AMP stores its portion of each database table within that space.