Teradata has launched Teradata RainStor version 7 for enterprise data archiving, to respond to the rapidly changing enterprise needs created by the rise of big data.
Available on Hadoop, RainStor is Teradata’s archiving solution to meet the most demanding customer needs including strict regulatory compliance and the integrated analysis of historical data.
RainStor is an online, SQL-based, enterprise class data archive solution, which radically reduces the footprint and costs of archiving, provides immutable data storage, and helps meet regulatory, and compliance needs.
It can store massive amounts of structured and semi-structured data from Data Warehouses, machines, other relational databases, or major data sources.
RainStor promises to provide a cost effective means of storing data in a minimal hardware footprint.
"By adding the Teradata Rainstor archiving solution to their Teradata Unified Data Architecture, organizations can tap a rich source of archived data to support users' advanced analytics," said Dan Harrington, EVP for global consulting and support services at Teradata.
"The Rainstor Archive solution supports advanced analytics with data previously stored on tapes, in ungoverned data lakes, or deleted because of a lack of storage,” said Harrington.
RainStor provides an enterprise online data archiving solution on top of Hadoop. It runs natively on the Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) on the Teradata Appliance for Hadoop or commodity Hadoop clusters. RainStor is also available on non-Hadoop platforms.