General Limitations | OTF | Iceberg |Delta Lake - General Limitations - Teradata Vantage

Teradata® Open Table Format for Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake User Guide

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
VMware
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Lake
Product
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
20.00
Published
October 2025
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2025-10-25
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Open Table Format (OTF)

The following are not supported for OTF Write at this time:

OTF does not support rollback in a transaction. However, you can manually delete external data files.
  • DELETE DATABASE SQL syntax to delete all the tables in an OTF database
  • MODIFY DATABASE SQL syntax to modify the properties for an OTF database
  • RENAME TABLE SQL syntax to rename an OTF table
  • SHOW TABLE SQL syntax to display the definition of an OTF table. HELP TABLE is supported as an alternative
  • UPSERT SQL syntax to insert and update data in an OTF table
  • MERGE SQL syntax for an OTF table
  • Using a Stored Procedure to create, insert into, delete from, update and drop an OTF table
  • Using a Macro to update an OTF table
  • Multi-statement requests
  • No support for merge-on-read mode
For AWS, the catalog_location and the storage_location must be in the same region.

Iceberg

  • Iceberg Read can handle data created with merge-on-read and copy-on-write.
  • Iceberg Write only supports copy-on-write.

Delta Lake

  • Delta Lake Read and Write only support copy-on-write mode.
  • Partitioning on a BLOB column is not supported.