Teradata PT Parallel Environment - Parallel Transporter

Teradata Parallel Transporter User Guide

Product
Parallel Transporter
Release Number
15.10
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-10-07
dita:id
B035-2445
lifecycle
previous
Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

Although the traditional Teradata standalone utilities offer load and extract functions, these utilities are limited to a serial environment.

Figure 1 illustrates the parallel environment of Teradata PT.

Figure 1: Contrasting Traditional Utilities and Teradata PT

Teradata PT uses data streams that act as a pipeline between operators. With data streams, data basically flows from one operator to another.

Teradata PT supports the following types of environments:

  • Pipeline Parallelism
  • Data Parallelism