By design, the Open Analytics Framework enables the vision of extending Vantage ClearScape Analytics to open source and cloud analytics services. As a feature, it addresses and overcomes limitations of the corresponding Vantage SCRIPT table operators that were detailed in the section A Historical Perspective of Python and R in Teradata. In addition, it has all the attractive features that gave SCRIPT and ExecR table operators their popularity.
Advantages to using the Open Analytics Framework follow:
- It provides machine learning model training and scoring using open source Python and R libraries.
- It facilitates model training and scoring at scale.
- It offers the ability to improve parallelism performance by increasing the underlying cloud resources.
- It provides a safe and secure way to perform tasks with external and user-created code.
- It eliminates time-consuming data transfers.
- It enables user developed and open source data science packages and solutions.