Teradata Enterprise

This topic describes Teradata data source setup and Dremio configuration.

Teradata Setup

Dremio provides the Teradata connector with Dremio Enterprise Edition. You must install the proprietary Teradata JDBC driver in order to connect to a Teradata source.

To setup Teradata as a data source:

1. Download the Teradata JDBC jars: tdgssconfig.jar and TeraJDBC.jar. The Teradata JDBC driver version 16.20+ does not need the tdgssconfig.jar file.
2. Move the jar files into the /opt/dremio/jars/3rdparty directory on every Dremio node.
3. Restart Dremio coordinators and executors to pick up the newly-installed JDBC driver.

1. Download Teradata Dremio plugin JAR and move it into the /opt/dremio/jars directory.

Dremio Configuration

Dremio provides the following configuration settings when adding the data source.

General

Specify general options with the following settings.

Connection

Name	Description
Host	Teradata host name.
Port	Teradata port number. Defaults to 1025.
Service Name	Service Name of your database.

Authentication

• No authentication method

• Master Authentication method (default)

  • Username -- Teradata user name
  • Password -- Teradata password

• Encrypt connection -- Enables secure connections.

Advanced Options

Specify advanced options with the following settings.

• Show only the initial database used for connecting.
• Record fetch size: Number of records to fetch at once. Set to 0 (zero) to have Dremio automatically decide. Default: 10
• Maximum idle connections: The total number of connections allowed to be idle at a given time. By default, this is set to 8.
• Connection idle time (s): The amount of time (in seconds) allowed for a connection to remain idle before the connection is terminated. By default, this is set to 60.
• Query timeout: The amount of time (in seconds) allowed to wait for the results of a query. If this time expires, the connection being used is returned to an idle state.

Reflection Refresh

Specify refresh policy options with the following settings.

• Never refresh -- Specifies how often to refresh based on hours, days, weeks, or never.
• Never expire -- Specifies how often to expire based on hours, days, weeks, or never.

Metadata

Specify metadata options is handled with the following settings.

Dataset Handling

• Remove dataset definitions if underlying data is unavailable (Default).
• If this box is not checked and the underlying files under a folder are removed or the folder/source is not accessible, Dremio does not remove the dataset definitions. This option is useful in cases when files are temporarily deleted and put back in place with new sets of files.

Metadata Refresh

• Dataset Discovery -- Refresh interval for top-level source object names such as names of DBs and tables.
  • Fetch every -- Specify fetch time based on minutes, hours, days, or weeks. Default: 1 hour
• Dataset Details -- The metadata that Dremio needs for query planning such as information needed for fields, types, shards, statistics, and locality.
  • Fetch mode -- Specify either Only Queried Datasets, All Datasets, or As Needed. Default: Only Queried Datasets
    • Only Queried Datasets -- Dremio updates details for previously queried objects in a source.
      This mode increases query performance because less work is needed at query time for these datasets.
    • All Datasets -- Dremio updates details for all datasets in a source. This mode increases query performance because less work is needed at query time.
    • As Needed -- Dremio updates details for a dataset at query time. This mode minimized metadata queries on a source when not used, but might lead to longer planning times.
  • Fetch every -- Specify fetch time based on minutes, hours, days, or weeks. Default: 1 hour
  • Expire after -- Specify expiration time based on minutes, hours, days, or weeks. Default: 3 hours

Sharing

Specify which users can edit with the following settings.

• All users can edit.
• Specific users can edit.

Predicate Pushdowns

Dremio delegates the execution of these expressions and functions to the database being queried, often dramatically improving query performance. It can also offload entire SQL queries that include one or more of these expressions and functions.

<, <=, <>, =, >=, >, !=
*, +, -, /
AND, NOT, OR, ||
ABS
ACOS
ADD_MONTHS
ASIN
ATAN
ATAN2
AVG
CAST
CEIL
CEILING
CHAR_LENGTH
CHARACTER_LENGTH
CONCAT
COS
COSH
COT
COVAR_POP
COVAR_SAMP
DATE_ADD
DATE_SUB
DATE_TRUNC_DAY
DATE_TRUNC_MONTH
DATE_TRUNC_QUARTER
DATE_TRUNC_WEEK
DATE_TRUNC_YEAR
DEGREES
E
EXP
EXTRACT_DAY
EXTRACT_DOW
EXTRACT_DOY
EXTRACT_HOUR
EXTRACT_MINUTE
EXTRACT_MONTH
EXTRACT_QUARTER
EXTRACT_SECOND
EXTRACT_WEEK
EXTRACT_YEAR
FLOOR
IS DISTINCT FROM
IS NOT DISTINCT FROM
IS NOT NULL
IS NULL
LAST_DAY
LCASE
LEFT
LENGTH
LIKE
LN
LOCATE
LOG
LOG10
LOWER
LPAD
LTRIM
MAX
MIN
MOD
PI
POSITION
POW
POWER
RADIANS
REPLACE
REVERSE
RIGHT
ROUND
RPAD
RTRIM
SIGN
SIN
SINH
SQRT
STDDEV
STDDEV_POP
STDDEV_SAMP
SUBSTR
SUBSTRING
SUM
TAN
TANH
TIMESTAMPADD_DAY
TIMESTAMPADD_HOUR
TIMESTAMPADD_MINUTE
TIMESTAMPADD_MONTH
TIMESTAMPADD_SECOND
TIMESTAMPADD_YEAR
TIMESTAMPDIFF_YEAR
TO_CHAR
TO_DATE
TRIM
TRUNC
TRUNCATE
UCASE
UPPER
VAR_POP
VAR_SAMP

Running Queries Directly on Teradata Through Dremio

Dremio users can run pass queries through Dremio to run on Teradata. Doing so can sometimes decrease query execution times. For more information, see Querying Relational-Database Sources Directly.