Teradata PT Parallel Environment
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 PTTeradata 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: