Re: Oracle Warehousing or Teradata

Don't know, don't care. Really.

Try getting some documents from their web site.

Jared

On Tuesday 08 April 2003 23:58, Hussain Ahmed Qadri wrote:
> Thanks Jarred, and Mark,
> Although it's a good idea to get the presentations from both, and most
> probably we'll do that, but just for confirmation purposes, does the latest
> version of TD come equipped with partitioning or Bitmap indexes? So
> apparently, the only thing which is, in my opinion, different between the
> two is the size capabilities, i.e. TD is capable of more? Rest for all
> things Oracle seems better equipped to handle warehousing requirements?
>
> Regards,
>
> Hussain
>
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> I took a fairly close look at Teradata 2.5 years ago.
>
> At that time, I could not see where it had any advantage over Oracle,
> particularly for Data Warehousing using star schemas.
>
> Whereas there are many benefits to using Oracle.
>
> Bitmap indexes ( don't think TD had those)
>
> Partitioning - TD had something like it, but the Oracle version
> was much more robust IIRC.
>
> Availability of skilled personnel - At the time I checked, there were
> 69 open TD positions nationwide - At that time there were 6900
> Oracle positions.
>
> Non-proprietary - Teradata runs on NT or NCR, nothing else.
>
> Expense - believe it or not, TD costs more than Oracle.
>
> Development tools and 3rd party software - much more support for Oracle.
>
> ... more I can't recall.
>
>
> My employer at that time decided to dump Oracle for DW and go
> with TD instead. I left.
>
> Jared
>
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> Hussain Ahmed Qadri <hussain_at_skm.org.pk>
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> 04/08/2003 02:18 AM
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> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
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> Subject: Oracle Warehousing or Teradata
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>
> One of our clients was interested in knowing which warehousing software he
> should consider. Since he is already using Oracle, so he wanted to know
> about the Oracle warehousing capabilities, as compared to Teradata. So
> also for the sake of knowledge, which one is better and if one could be a
> replacement of the other, in any environment.
> Regards,
> Hussain
>
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