Teradata Database allows users to view and manage large amounts of data as a collection of related tables. Some of the capabilities of Teradata Database are listed in the following table.
| Teradata Database provides… | That… |
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| capacity | includes:
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| parallel processing | makes Teradata Database faster than other relational systems. |
| single data store |
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| fault tolerance | automatically detects and recovers from hardware failures. |
| data integrity | ensures that transactions either complete or rollback to a consistent state if a fault occurs. |
| scalable growth | allows expansion without sacrificing performance. |
| SQL | serves as a standard access language for relational database communication. SQL enables users to control data. |