Teradata Enterprise

This topic describes Teradata data source setup and Dremio configuration.

User Impersonation

The Teradata database username provided in the source configuration is the default username that is used for running queries. When queries are run against Teradata in Dremio, users use the privileges associated with the Teradata database username and run queries under that username.

You can change this default in Dremio by enabling user impersonation in the Advanced Options, which allows users to run queries under their own usernames and restricts their access. For example, user_1 can run queries as user_1 rather than Teradata_svc. Before enabling user impersonation, some setup is required in Teradata to allow one user to impersonate another user, because the username of the user in Dremio must be the same as their username in Teradata and the user must be able to connect through the Teradata database username.

To set up user impersonation, follow these steps:

1. Ensure the user's username in Teradata matches their username in Dremio. If the usernames do not match, modify one of the usernames or create a new user account with a matching username.

2. Run a GRANT CONNECT THROUGH command in Teradata to allow the user to connect through the Teradata database username:

Example of granting the CONNECT THROUGH privilege in Teradata

GRANT CONNECT THROUGH proxyuser TO PERMANENT testuser1 WITHOUT ROLE;

In this example, the user can log in as testuser1 in Dremio and in Teradata, and they can connect through the proxyuser. The proxyuser is the Teradata database username provided in the source configuration.

3. Log in as an admin to Dremio.

4. Follow the steps for Dremio Configuration using the Teradata database username and enable User Impersonation in the Advanced Options.

5. Grant source privileges to the user.

Now that you have enabled user impersonation, a user logging in to Dremio with their username can access the Teradata source and its datasets according to their privileges. The user also runs queries against Teradata under their username.

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.

Configuring Teradata as a Source

1. On the Datasets page, to the right of Sources in the left panel, click .
2. In the Add Data Source dialog, under Databases, select Teradata.

General

Under Name, enter the name to identify the data source in Dremio. The name cannot include the following special characters: /, :, [, or ].

Connection

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

Authentication

• Username: Teradata username
• Password:

  • Dremio: Provide the Teradata password in plain text. Dremio stores the password.

  • Azure Key Vault: Provide the URI for the Azure Key Vault secret that stores the Teradata password. The URI format is https://<vault_name>.vault.azure.net/secrets/<secret_name> (for example, https://myvault.vault.azure.net/secrets/mysecret).

    note

    To use Azure Key Vault as your application secret store, you must:
    - Deploy Dremio on Azure AKS.
    - Complete the Requirements for Authenticating with Azure Key Vault.

    It is not necessary to restart the Dremio coordinator when you rotate secrets stored in Azure Key Vault. Read Requirements for Secrets Rotation for more information.

  • AWS Secrets Manager: Provide the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the AWS Secrets Manager secret that holds the Teradata password, which is available in the AWS web console or using command line tools.

  • HashiCorp Vault: Choose the HashiCorp secrets engine you're using from the dropdown menu and enter the secret reference for the Teradata password in the correct format in the provided field.

Select the Encrypt connection option to encrypt the connection to Teradata. Clear the checkbox to disable encryption.

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.
• User Impersonation: Allows users to run queries using their credentials rather than the username provided in the source credentials. Some setup is required in Teradata to allow one user to impersonate another user. See User Impersonation.

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

Privileges

On the Privileges tab, you can grant privileges to specific users or roles. See Access Controls for additional information about privileges.

note

All privileges are optional.

1. For Privileges, enter the user name or role name that you want to grant access to and click the Add to Privileges button. The added user or role is displayed in the USERS/ROLES table.
2. For the users or roles in the USERS/ROLES table, toggle the checkmark for each privilege you want to grant on the Dremio source that is being created.
3. Click Save after setting the configuration.

Updating a Teradata Source

To update a Teradata source:

1. On the Datasets page, under Databases in the panel on the left, find the name of the source you want to update.
2. Right-click the source name and select Settings from the list of actions. Alternatively, click the source name and then the at the top right corner of the page.
3. In the Source Settings dialog, edit the settings you wish to update. Dremio does not support updating the source name. For information about the settings options, see Configuring Teradata as a Source.
4. Click Save.

Deleting a Teradata Source

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If the source is in a bad state (for example, Dremio cannot authenticate to the source or the source is otherwise unavailable), only users who belong to the ADMIN role can delete the source.

To delete a Teradata source, perform these steps:

1. On the Datasets page, click Sources > Databases in the panel on the left.
2. In the list of data sources, hover over the name of the source you want to remove and right-click.
3. From the list of actions, click Delete.
4. In the Delete Source dialog, click Delete to confirm that you want to remove the source.

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Deleting a source causes all downstream views that depend on objects in the source to break.

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.