Native Object Store | Advanced SQL Engine 17.00 | Teradata Vantage - Native Object Store - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

Teradata Vantage™ - Advanced SQL Engine Release Summary

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.10
Published
July 2021
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-07-27
dita:mapPath
olo1596850177299.ditamap
dita:ditavalPath
olo1596850177299.ditaval
dita:id
B035-1098
Product Category
Software
Teradata Vantage

The Native Object Store (NOS) feature allows external data to be integrated into Teradata Vantage easily. You can create new foreign tables or use the new READ_NOS table operator to access this data as if it were native Vantage relational data.

Benefits

  • Allows Vantage to read and process external data using standard SQL. This can vastly speed extracting valuable business insights from external data.
  • Use data from external storage without the need to manually copy the data to Vantage permanent storage from where it natively resides.
  • Read data from various external sources, such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob storage (including Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 in Blob Interop Mode), and Google Cloud Storage.
  • External data can be unstructured or semi-structured, stored in several formats, such as JSON, CSV, and Parquet.
  • Join external data to existing relational data in Vantage for further processing by Teradata analytic functions.
  • New CREATE FOREIGN TABLE statement and READ_NOS table operator can access external data. READ_NOS does not require the user to have CREATE TABLE database privileges.
  • CREATE FOREIGN TABLE and READ_NOS can include authorization information for access to the external data. (Access to the authorization information can be limited by storing it in a function mapping that has limited access.)

Considerations

  • NOS is available only on Vantage delivered as-a-service platforms (such as Teradata Vantage on AWS, Teradata Vantage on Azure, and Teradata Vantage on Google Cloud).
  • Currently supports JSON, CSV, and Parquet data formats.
  • You cannot modify (INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE) data in foreign tables.
  • You cannot use ALTER TABLE on foreign tables.
  • BAR and DSA only archive the table definitions for foreign tables. Foreign data is not archived.

SQL Changes

  • New CREATE FOREIGN TABLE statement
  • New FOREIGN optional keyword for DROP TABLE
  • READ_NOS table operator
  • New EXTERNAL SECURITY clause for CREATE AUTHORIZATION
  • New EXTERNAL SECURITY clause for CREATE FUNCTION MAPPING

Additional Information

For more information about creating foreign tables and accessing external data, see Native Object Store: Teradata Vantage™ Advanced SQL Engine, TDN0009800, Teradata Vantage™ - SQL Data Definition Language Syntax and Examples, B035-1144, and Teradata Vantage™ - SQL Data Manipulation Language, B035-1146.