Teradata Upgrades Data Warehouse

The fourth quarter this year will see the release of Teradata’s upgraded data warehouse. Version 8.2 will feature enhanced support for real-time intelligence in the form of quick and predictable high-frequency queries from front-end customer service applications. The Linux version of the database that runs on the 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell is now available. Database Trends and Applications reports:

The “active data warehouse” from Teradata can now create partitions in join indexes, acting as "alphabetical tabs" that allow the database to only look in relevant sections, and avoid the need to scan tend of millions of rows in a join index.