Teradata (NYSE:TDC) recently launched Aster Data SQL-MapReduce Developer portal, which is supposed to be the first collaborative online developer community for SQL-MapReduce analytics.

“This new developer portal builds on Aster Data’s continuing SQL-MapReduce innovation, leveraging the flexibility and power of SQL-MapReduce for analytics that were previously impossible or impractical,” remarked Tasso Argyros, VP, Aster Data Marketing and Product Management, Teradata.

The developer portal showcases the power and flexibility of Aster Data’s SQL-MapReduce – which combines standard SQL with the popular MapReduce distributed computing technology for processing big data – by providing a collaborative community for sharing SQL-MapReduce expert insights in addition to sharing SQL-MapReduce analytic functions and sample code. Data scientists, quantitative analysts, and developers can now leverage the experience, knowledge, and best practices of a community of experts to easily harness the power of SQL-MapReduce for big data analytics.

This portal builds on Aster Data’s history of SQL-MapReduce innovations, including the first deep integration of SQL with MapReduce, the first MapReduce support for .NET, the first integrated development environment, Aster Data Developer Express and a comprehensive suite of analytic functions, Aster Data Analytic Foundation.

As reported, Aster Data’s patent-pending SQL-MapReduce enables analytic applications and functions that can deliver faster, deeper insights on terabytes to petabytes of data. These applications are implemented using MapReduce but delivered through standard SQL and BI tools.