Teradata VantageCloud vs Yellowbrick Data Warehouse

Teradata VantageCloud, renamed Teradata Cloud in May 2026, is Teradata’s cloud deployment of its Autonomous Knowledge Platform for production AI, analytics, lakehouse, and agentic AI workloads. It is purpose-built for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, with public cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployment options. Its managed system combines always-on compute with elastic capacity that scales within defined boundaries and releases resources when idle. Elastic compute can work directly with Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake tables in object storage.

The platform supports Python, R, SQL, and SAS, and lists integrations with Amazon SageMaker, AzureML, Google Vertex AI, Dataiku, and H2O.ai. External models can be imported using PMML, MOJO, ONNX, or MLeap. In hybrid deployments, data remains in its original environment unless configured to move. Teradata lists HIPAA, HITRUST, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 27017, PCI DSS, SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, and GDPR among its programs and commitments. A free trial offers an interactive sandbox and more than 250 guided demos without requiring a credit card; no trial duration is stated. The ClearScape Analytics Experience is free. Teradata Cloud pricing is on request; listed Lake packages use a $1.50 per unit base rate, with package-specific rates described separately.

Yellowbrick Data Warehouse is a SQL data platform for data warehousing and application analytics. It handles batch, real-time, ad hoc, and mixed workloads, and can run in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or on premises. Storage and compute are separate: virtual compute clusters can be created, resized, and removed on demand through SQL. Yellowbrick Manager is a web interface for instance management, integrations, workload optimization, queries, and query-plan profiling. Third-party tools connect through PostgreSQL-compatible ODBC and JDBC; the documented ecosystem includes Airbyte, Airflow, Kafka, Spark/Databricks, Tableau, and others. Security options include OAuth2, Kerberos, LDAP authentication, role-based access control, customer-managed encryption keys, FIPS compliance, and TLS. Software, data, metadata, logs, and diagnostics can remain in a customer's cloud account, and the product can also run on premises. Global 24×7 support is included without additional support charges. On-demand pricing is $0.28 a month, with cloud or on-premises infrastructure costs separate. A 30-day trial is available through the AWS quickstart page. Subscriptions cover use up to the selected vCPU maximum; unused vCPU hours do not roll forward.