DataBase Technology

The relational database technology underlying all TeraGenomics solutions is Teradata. Teradata pioneered data warehousing technology 20 years ago and is the worldwide leader for very large data warehouses. It was designed from the beginning with a massively parallel processing architecture that is mature, stable, and remains the fastest and most scalable data warehouse technology available, as demonstrated by benchmarks conducted by independent evaluators and analyst ratings. Teradata is used in more of the world's terabyte-scale data warehouses than any other database product.

Teradata customers include many of the world's leading companies in retail, telecommunications, banking, insurance, and transportation, who time and again win awards from the business media for innovation, technological excellence, and business value. Typically, Teradata customers extract detailed operational data from transaction processing systems and load it into a central, enterprise-wide Teradata warehouse to answer questions that cut across business lines and functional units.

Teradata is ideally suited to integrate, manage, and analyze the large volumes of scientific data from many disciplines that characterize enterprise information environments in the life sciences. Teradata's high performance in responding to ad hoc and complex queries provides the best capability on the market to support the discovery process that drives research and development.