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Topic
Design
Purpose
Basic
motivation
Data
granularity
Data
currency
Data
Access
method
User type

OLTP
Application Oriented
Used to run business
Collect and input data

Data Warehouse
Subject Oriented
Used to analyze business
Provide information

Detailed data

Summarized and refined

Current up to date

Snapshot data

Isolated Data
Predefined and
Repetitive access
Clerical User

System
feature
Size of
result set
Response
time
Data access

Performance Sensitive

Integrated Data
Predefined and Ad-hoc
access
Knowledge User
(Manager)
Performance relaxed

Few Records accessed

at a time (tens)
Very fast

Large volumes accessed

at a time(millions)
Fast to moderate

Read/Update Access

Update
frequency
Data Model

Very frequent

Mostly Read (Batch

Update)
Generally read only

Designed for update

Designed for queries

Data
redundancy
Database
Size
Optimizatio
n of
database
Performanc
e metric

No data redundancy

Redundancy present

100MB -100 GB

100 GB - few terabytes

For transaction

For queries

Transaction throughput
is the performance
metric

Query throughput is the

performance metric

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Scope of
Single transactions
user
interaction
Number of
Thousands of users
users
Managemen Managed in entirety
t in system

Throughout data contents

Hundreds of users
Managed by subsets