An Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP

Technology by Surajit Chaudhuri & Uneshwar Dayal

Connor Griffin
Gemma Hayes
Kate Grace
Ross Harrington

What Is Data Warehousing?

A datawarehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, nonvolatile, and time-variant collection of data in support of

managements decisions Bill Inmon

Breakdown
Subject-Oriented
Integrated Property
Non-Volatile
Time-variant

On-line Analytical Processing

(OLAP)
bread-and-butter day-to-day operations of an
organisation
Fast query processing from detailed and current
data
Essential for businesses that run in real time

On-line analytical processing

(OLAP)
Specific, complex queries relating to analytics &
data mining
Enables a user to select data from different points
of view
Fundamental to Business Intelligence
Facilitates the creation of tables and charts for a
visualisation of KPIs
Stored in Multidimensional databases

Architecture and End-to-End

Process
Define the architecture, do capacity planning
Integrate the servers, storage, and client tools
Design the warehouse schema and views
Define the physical warehouse organisation, data
placement, partitioning, and access methods
Connect the sources using gateways, Open Database
Connectivity (ODBC ) drivers, or other wrappers
Design and implement scripts for data extraction,
cleaning, transformation, load, and refresh
Populate the repository with the schema and view
definitions, scripts, and other metadata
Design and implement end-user applications
Roll out the warehouse and applications