Overview

Teradata Developer Guides

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2026-08-18

Native Object Storage (NOS) is a feature of Teradata that allows you to query data stored in external object storage, including CSV, JSON, and Parquet files.

These datasets can be located in external object storage such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, or on-premises object storage.

NOS is useful when you want to explore external data without first building a data pipeline to load it into Teradata. This tutorial demonstrates how to export data from Teradata to object storage in Parquet format.