Teradata Fabric includes the following components:
| Component | Description |
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| Teradata Fabric Manager | Software installed on a dedicated physical machine (TMS or server) or VM that enables definition, administration, and monitoring of Teradata Fabric. After installing Teradata Fabric Manager, configure it in Viewpoint, and then use the Teradata® Fabric portlet to install and configure the remaining Teradata Fabric components. |
| Data Center | Logical name that represents the physical location or region of data sources (systems) and Teradata Fabric Manager instances. When available, data source nodes communicate with Teradata Fabric Manager that share the same Data Center. |
| Data Source | System containing one or more data source nodes that share the same software platform, such as Teradata system nodes or nodes in a Hadoop cluster. |
| Bridge | A system containing a subset of data source nodes or non-data source nodes used to provide connectivity between data sources systems that do not have direct network connectivity. |
| Fabric | One or more data source nodes, spanning multiple systems, that run a compatible version of Teradata Fabric tdqg-fabric software listening on the same port. Only links that involve the Teradata Connector are supported. For example, links where neither the initiator nor target connector are a Teradata connector, such as Hive-to-Oracle, are not supported |
| Connector | Adapter software for a data source that enables data type mapping, conversion, and communication with other connectors in the same Teradata Fabric fabric. The initiating connector is the connector you interact with to start the query and the target connector is the connector that then gets triggered on the remote side to do most of the processing of the query. The following connectors are supported:
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| Link | Named configuration that specifies which connectors can communicate with each other and defines rules of data transfer. |