The Teradata Express program offers customers a free evaluation version of the Teradata database as a download from Teradata.com.  While the Express edition is not licensed for production usage and is not officially supported, this is a fully functional Teradata database that is a great tool for developers and testers working on their Teradata projects or other who want hands-on learning with Teradata. 

Teradata Express 13 New Platforms

Teradata Express has been available as a Windows installation for Teradata 12 and earlier.  But now with the introduction of Teradata 13, we are pleased to announce that the Teradata Express family of products has been extended to include two new platforms: Teradata Express for VMware Player and Teradata Express for Amazon EC2 are now available.  Both new products take Teradata to the Clouds...  Our VMware Player edition enables customers to deploy to their internal cloud infrastructure while our Amazon EC2 edition enables customers to run their Teradata database on the new Amazon EC2 public cloud platform.  And if that wasn't enough reason for Teradata fans to get excited, these new products now offer support for up to 1 TB of storage!

Teradata Express 13 for Windows

This is a continuation of our traditional Teradata Express distribution.  It is an installation package for Windows that includes the Teradata database as well as a collection of the Teradata Tools and Utilities (TTU) along with a demo version of Teradata Warehouse Miner.  This is a complete package that will transform your workstation into a powerhouse Teradata development platform.  Teradata Express for Windows is our 32-bit Windows platform offering a maximum database capacity of 10 GB (up from the 4 GB limit of Teradata Express 12.0).   This version is well suited for notebooks and older workstations. 

Teradata Express 13 for VMware Player

This is an exciting new offering by Teradata.  By leveraging VMware technology, we are able to offer a full configured and running Teradata database packaged on Novell's SLES Linux platform.  With the VMware Player, Teradata can be up and running in minutes, fully contained in its own virtual environment.  As this is our fully functioning Linux 64-bit database, a 64-bit capable computer is a requirement.  And as we've highlighted above, the capacity of the database has been extended to a full TB of data!  Also included with this distribution are our Linux load/unload tools; including our new EasyLoader interface to TPT and also our new SQL Assistant Java Edition.

Teradata Express 13 for Amazon EC2

Cloud computing is the hot new topic in the IT world.  The ability to commission servers in minutes on a trusted, hosted platform has the potential to change the way we think about our IT infrastructure.  Amazon is the leader in this space with its Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) platform.  Teradata Express for Amazon EC2 brings a fully configured Linux Teradata server instance running on Novell's SLES 10 to this exciting new platform.  With your Amazon account, a Teradata server with a full terabye of storage capacity can be up and running in minutes.  This Teradata Express database can be used by your development teams for collaboration from anywhere with Internet access.

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Please note that while the Teradata Express family of products is not officially supported, you can talk to other users and get help in the Cloud Computing forum.