October 14, 2008

Teradata Virtual Storage

One of the big features of Teradata 13.0, announced this week (Edit: and to be shipped some time in 2009), is Teradata Virtual Storage, which sounds pretty cool. So far as I can tell, Teradata Virtual Storage has two major aspects, namely:

I’m squirming a little bit at that fully automatic aspect, for two reasons. First, there’s the delay in moving new data to the hot areas. Of course, a simple workaround for that problem is for data to start out in high-speed “hot” areas, and only get moved to cooler ones if it’s not much used.

My second reason for squirming is that all systems exhibit pathological behavior from time to time, and it’s comforting to be able to override that, and I don’t know what kinds of manual override Teradata offers. I’ll see if I can get some answers before leaving Las Vegas.

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3 Responses to “Teradata Virtual Storage”

  1. Quick guide to Teradata’s announcements this week | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services on October 14th, 2008 2:12 pm

    […] Teradata announced Release 13.0 of its software, with lots of new features.  I’ll write about some of those in separate posts as well.  (E.g., Teradata Geospatial, Teradata Virtual Storage) […]

  2. Joe Celko on October 15th, 2008 5:13 pm

    The solid state disk (SSD) is the future — Nano-tubes or quantum or whatever — and languages that were “born parallel” to take advantage of the hardware. This is why “SQL RULES!!” to quote some graffiti ..

  3. Reports of perfectly-balanced hardware configurations are greatly exaggerated | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services on February 5th, 2010 3:42 pm

    […] ascribes considerable importance to a Virtual Storage technology whose main purpose is to allow mixing of heterogeneous storage devices in a single […]

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