A data warehouse is a relational database that is designed for query and analysis rather than for transaction processing. It usually contains historical data derived from transaction data, but it can include data from other sources. It separates analysis workload from transaction workload and enables an organization to consolidate data from several sources. In addition to a relational database, a data warehouse environment includes an extraction, transportation, transformation, and loading (ETL) solution, an online analytical processing (OLAP) engine, client analysis tools, and other applications that manage the process of gathering data and delivering it to business users.
Data Warehouse Architecture
What is The ETL
is a process indata warehouse responsible for pulling data out of the source systems and placing it into a data warehouse.
ETL Tools
Deferent between OLAP and
OLTP
what is OLTP(Online transaction
possessing ) Online transaction processing, orOLTP, is a class of information system that facilitate and manage transaction-oriented applications, typically for data entry and retrieval transaction processing . The term is somewhat ambiguous; some understand a "transaction" in the context of computer or database transactions, while others (such as the transaction processing performance council) define it in terms of business or commercial transactions.OLTP has also been used to refer to processing in which the system responds immediately to user requests. An automate teller machine (ATM) for a bank is an example of a commercial transaction processing application.
OLAP (online analytical processing)
OLAP (online analytical processing) is computer processing that enables a user to easily and selectively extract and viewdatafrom different points of view. For example, a user can request that data be analyzed to display a spreadsheet showing all of a company's beach ball products sold in Florida in the month of July, compare revenue figures with those for the same products in September, and then see a comparison of other product sales in Florida in the same time period