Teradata Warehouse Server Leads First-Ever Gartner Magic Quadrant
Gartner positions the NCR Teradata Warehouse Server in the leaders quadrant in its first-ever "Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management System Servers, 2006". This report evaluates database management system servers for data warehousing.
As the business grows, the NCR server can grow from a small powerhouse to a 4.2 petabyte-size warehouse capable of the most complex and advanced workloads for global businesses. The NCR server was purpose-built for data warehousing and is tightly integrated with the Teradata database to deliver the best in class rankings.
The full Gartner Magic Quadrant Report is here, courtsey NCR Teradata. Some excerpts...
Data warehousing has rapidly become mission-critical in recent years with the growing strategic importance and pervasiveness of business intelligence. Further than being mission-critical, the DW DBMS server is rapidly and justifying being positioned as a high-availability platform for continuous 24x7 operations. The DW DBMS server workload links to the client/server publishing enterprise architecture (EA) pattern. The DW DBMS server is connected to the other infrastructure platforms over a LAN, provisioning a DBMS repository for the application workloads and tools. Its function is predominantly to satisfy reports and queries specifically structured on a DW/DBMS repository. Scale-out clustering is a requirement, as is coping with massively parallel complex queries. This requirement blurs the boundaries between DBMS hardware/software, interconnects and storage.
It is important to stress that this Magic Quadrant assesses the mix of server platform (hardware/operating system, software stack) for a given workload and market, and it does not compare individual components separately from the platform (for example, not for comparing DB2 vs. Oracle alone; see the addendum).