Teradata Embraces Open Table Formats, Iceberg and Delta Lake, to Deliver the Most Open and Connected Ecosystem for Trusted AI - Seite 2

Teradata’s platform, the industry’s most open, offers first-party services for Apache Iceberg and Linux Foundation Delta Lake OTFs with full support for cross-read and cross-write data stored in multiple OTFs. This interoperability extends to AWS Glue, Unity, and Apache Hive catalogs and works in multi-cloud and multi-data lake environments, which is designed to deliver a connected, harmonized data experience to Teradata customers without the need to move or transform data.

“The future is open. Teradata has cultivated a thriving ecosystem for many years now and our embrace of OTFs, as well as the expansion of our on-demand AI/ML offering, shows just how serious we are about providing organizations the most open and connected ecosystem for cloud analytics and data,” said Hillary Ashton, Chief Product Officer at Teradata. “This is especially critical as companies work to incorporate Trusted AI into their ecosystems because an open platform like ours is intended to deliver massive benefits – accelerated innovation, improved productivity and more – but with robust support for the guardrails required for trust, like transparency and explainability.”

AI adoption has driven a rapid consolidation of data warehouses, analytics, and data science workloads into unified lakehouses. OTF support further enhances Teradata’s lakehouse capabilities, providing a storage abstraction layer that’s designed to be flexible, cost-efficient, and easy-to-use. Users can leverage AI Unlimited and other analytical engines against their own datasets, in their own cloud object stores – enabling them to take an agile, best-of-breed approach without the challenge and expense of moving data. Secure, shared access to large datasets enables Teradata customers to build data pipelines, score and train models, improve analytics and decision-making, and much more.

Teradata AI Unlimited

AI datasets are one of the most common ways organizations are using OTFs today, so it’s critical that platforms meant to accelerate AI use cases, like Teradata AI Unlimited, support this data format. Teradata AI Unlimited is an on-demand and cloud-native AI/ML engine that’s fully open and connected – now with support for OTFs – which is intended to make AI innovation faster, easier, and more cost-effective. Soon-to-be-available in public preview on AWS and Azure Marketplaces, AI Unlimited allows data scientists, data engineers, and developers to explore, experiment, and operationalize AI projects at scale.