Provides comprehensive tools for interacting with Teradata databases including querying, data analysis, vector store management, feature store access, data quality analysis, database administration, and security management. Supports RAG applications, exploratory data analysis, and AI agent workflows for data-driven applications.
Overview
The Teradata MCP server provides sets of tools and prompts, grouped as modules for interacting with Teradata databases. Enabling AI agents and users to query, analyze, and manage their data efficiently.
Key features
Available tools and prompts
We are providing groupings of tools and associated helpful prompts to support all type of agentic applications on the data platform.
Search tools, prompts and resources to search and manage vector stores.
RAG Tools rapidly build RAG applications.
Query tools, prompts and resources to query and navigate your Teradata platform:
Table tools, to efficiently and predictably access structured data models:
Feature Store Tools to access and manage the Teradata Enterprise Feature Store.
Semantic layer definitions to easily implement domain-specific tools, prompts and resources for your own business data models.
Data Quality tools, prompts and resources accelerate exploratory data analysis:
DBA tools, prompts and resources to facilitate your platform administration tasks:
Data Scientist tools, prompts, and resources to build powerful AI agents and workflows for data-driven applications.
Quick start with Claude Desktop (no installation)
Prefer to use other tools? Check out our Quick Starts for VS Code/Copilot, Open WebUI, or dive into simple code examples! You can use Claude Desktop to give the Teradata MCP server a quick try, Claude can manage the server in the background using
uv. No permanent installation needed.
Pre-requisites
Get your Teradata database credentials or create a free sandbox at Teradata Clearscape Experience.
Install Claude Desktop.
Install uv. If you are on MacOS, Use Homebrew:
brew install uv, on Windows you may usepip install uvas an alternative to the installer.
Configure the claude_desktop_config.json (Settings>Developer>Edit Config) by adding the configuration below, updating the database username, password and URL:
Installation Instructions
Follow this process to install your server, connect it to your Teradata platform and integrated your tools.
Step 1. - Identify the running Teradata System, you need username, password and host details. If you do not have a Teradata system to connect to, then leverage Teradata Clearscape Experience
Step 2. - To install, configure and run the MCP server, refer to the Teradata MCP Server Documentation.
Step 3. - There are many client options available, the Client Guide explains how to configure and run a sample of different clients.
Check out our libraries of curated examples or video guides.
Contributing
Please refer to the Contributing guide and the Developer Guide.
Certification
remote-capable server
The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.
Tools
Enables AI agents and users to query, analyze, and manage Teradata databases through modular tools for search, data quality, administration, and data science operations. Provides comprehensive database interaction capabilities including RAG applications, feature store management, and vector operations.