Teradata Parallel Transporter (Teradata PT) is an object-oriented client application that provides scalable, high-speed, parallel data extraction, loading, and updating.
Teradata PT uses and expands the functionality of the traditional Teradata standalone extract and load utilities FastLoad, MultiLoad, FastExport, and TPump.
Teradata PT has the following features:
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| Process-specific operators | Discrete object-oriented modules that run Teradata PT jobs.
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| Access modules | Software modules that give Teradata PT access to data stores. | ||||||||||
| Parallel execution structure | Teradata PT can execute multiple instances of an operator to run multiple and concurrent loads and extractions and update data inline. Teradata PT maximizes throughput performance through scalability and parallelism. | ||||||||||
| Data streams | Teradata PT distributes data into data streams shared with multiple instances of operators. Data streaming eliminates the need for intermediate data storage (data is not written to disk). | ||||||||||
| Single SQL-like scripting language | Teradata PT uses a single script language to specify extraction, loading, and updating operations. (Standalone extract and load utilities use their own scripting languages.) | ||||||||||
| GUI-based Teradata PT Wizard | Teradata PT Wizard helps you generate simple Teradata PT job scripts. |