(v24) Manage the Teradata Connector

Manage the Teradata Connector

The Composer Teradata connector lets you access the data available in Teradata databases using the Composer client. The Composer Teradata connector supports Teradata version 16.20.

Before you can establish a connection from Composer to Teradata storage, a connector server needs to be installed and configured. See Manage Connectors and Connector Servers for general instructions and Connect to Teradata for details specific to the Teradata connector.

After setting up the connector, create data sources that specify the necessary connection information and identify the data you want to use. See Manage Data Sources for more information. After you set up your data sources, create dashboards and visuals from from the data in these data sources. See Create Dashboards.

Feature Support

Connector support for specific features is shown in the following table.

Key: Y - Supported; N - Not Supported; N/A - not applicable

Feature	Supported?
Admin-Defined Functions	Y
Box Plots	Y
Custom SQL Queries	Y
Derived Fields (Row-Level Expressions)	Y
Distinct Counts	Y
Fast Distinct Values	N/A
Group By Multiple Fields	Y
Group By Time	Y
Group By UNIX Time	Y
Histogram Floating Point Values	Y
Histograms	Y
Kerberos Authentication	N
Last Value	Y
Live Mode and Playback	Y
Multivalued Fields	N/A
Nested Fields	N/A
Partitions	N
Pushdown Joins for Fusion Data Sources	Y
Schemas	Y
Text Search	N/A
TLS	Y
User Delegation	N
Wildcard Filters	Y
Wildcard Filters, Case-Insensitive Mode	Y
Wildcard Filters, Case-Sensitive Mode	Y

Connect to Teradata

The Teradata connector requires a JDBC driver to be configured before you can connect to your data source. You can download the driver from the vendor's site. If you are upgrading, keep in mind you need to configure the JDBC driver - see Upgrade Composer for instructions. For more information and steps, see Add a JDBC Driver.

You can limit the list of available collections in a Teradata data store to collections from a specific schema specified in the Teradata JDBC URL. Use the Teradata JDBC URL database property to limit the list of available schemas as well as the list of available collections to collections from the schema.  For example:

jdbc:teradata://<url>/dbs_port=<port>,database=<schema>

Be sure to work with your Teradata database administrator when you do this.