The advantage of Open Analytics Framework is that clusters within a compute group can be instantiated as needed and scale on demand. Scaling can be regulated by specifying one or more analytic compute profiles according to the needs of an organization. In particular, the compute profile instance argument specifies the instance type (compute map) to use and to scale by. The organization spends Vantage units only when the analytic compute group are active.
- Organization of data science teams
Depends on whether teams are to share an analytic compute group, whether each team needs its own analytic compute group, and so on.
Helps determine the number of analytic compute groups to configure and assign users to.
- Number of users who conduct open analytics
Helps determine the appropriate compute map and cluster scale size.
- Type and volume of analytics workload
Helps determine the appropriate compute map and cluster scale size.
- Deployment plan and analytic workload usage pattern
Helps determine the user accounts and their user profiles, and type of compute profiles to create.
VantageCloud Lake Console is the admin console where system administrators can manage VantageCloud Lake, including creating various compute groups.
Teradata recommends using the VantageCloud Lake Console to create analytic compute groups and analytic compute profiles under these groups, per your needs.
Alternatively, VantageCloud Lake also provides SQL commands CREATE COMPUTE GROUP and CREATE COMPUTE PROFILE to create analytic compute groups and profiles under them. These operations must be performed by a system administrator, unless suitable permissions have been granted to a non-admin console user.
To create an analytic compute profile under an analytic compute group, the profile instance type argument must be specified as 'ANALYTIC'.