Teradata provides a number of standardized interfaces to facilitate easy development of applications that access Teradata Database. The following table describes Teradata Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and what each provides.
| This utility... | Provides… |
|---|---|
| .NET Data Provider for Teradata | access to Teradata Database for .NET Framework applications. The Data Provider conforms to the ADO.NET specification. The ADO.NET specification is available from the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). |
| ODBC Driver for Teradata | access to Teradata Database from various tools, increasing the portability of access. |
| Teradata Call-Level Interface version 2 (CLIv2) | a Teradata proprietary API and library used by applications to communicate with Teradata Database. |
| Teradata Data Connector | a block-level I/O interface to one or more access modules that interface to hardware storage devices, software messaging systems. |
| Teradata JDBC Driver | platform-independent, Java-application access to Teradata Database from various tools increasing portability of data. |