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.
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.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). |
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ODBC Driver for Teradata |
access to Teradata Database from various tools, increasing the portability of access. |
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OLE DB Provider for Teradata |
an interface for accessing and manipulating data stores that might not use SQL. |
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Teradata Call-Level Interface version 2 (CLIv2) |
a Teradata proprietary API and library used by applications to communicate with Teradata Database. |
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Teradata Data Connector |
a block-level I/O interface to one or more access modules that interface to hardware storage devices, software messaging systems. |
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Teradata JDBC Driver |
platform-independent, Java‑application access to Teradata Database from various tools increasing portability of data. |