Teradata OTF CPU Considerations - 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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OTF queries typically consume high CPU resources as the engine requires additional CPU cycles to convert Iceberg data formats to Teradata native formats. On an idle system, a single-stream OTF query could potentially use 40-60% of the node's CPU. Therefore, it is recommended to run OTF workloads at medium or low priority. This can be achieved by creating a workload management rule with query classification on these OTF Iceberg functions:

  • TD_OTFDB.TD_ICEBERG_READ
  • TD_OTFDB.TD_ICEBERG_WRITE
  • TD_OTFDB.TD_DELTA_READ
  • TD_OTFDB.TD_DELTA_WRITE