Data Warehousing and OLAP Technology

Chapter 2

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 Chapter Outline

 What is a data warehouse?

 How to construct a Data Warehouse

 What is the Data Model used in data warehouse?

 Data warehouse architecture

 Data warehouse implementation

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 -- From Tables and Spreadsheets to Data Cubes

 A data warehouse is based on a multidimensional data model which

views data in the form of a data cube
 A data cube, such as sales, allows data to be modeled and viewed in
multiple dimensions
 Dimension tables, such as item (item_name, brand, type), or time(day,
week, month, quarter, year)
 Fact table contains measures (such as dollars_sold) and keys to each of
the related dimension tables
 In data warehousing literature, an n-D base cube is called a base
cuboid. The top most 0-D cuboid, which holds the highest-level of
summarization, is called the apex cuboid. The lattice of cuboids
forms a data cube.
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 Cube: A Lattice of Cuboids

all
0-D(apex) cuboid

time item location supplier

1-D cuboids

time,item time,location item,location location,supplier

2-D cuboids
time,supplier item,supplier

time,location,supplier
time,item,location 3-D cuboids
time,item,supplier item,location,supplier

4-D(base) cuboid
time, item, location, supplier

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 -- Conceptual Modeling of Data Warehouses

 Modeling data warehouses: dimensions & measures

 Star schema: A fact table in the middle connected to a set of

dimension tables

 Snowflake schema: A refinement of star schema where some

dimensional hierarchy is normalized into a set of smaller
dimension tables, forming a shape similar to snowflake

 Fact constellations: Multiple fact tables share dimension tables,

viewed as a collection of stars, therefore called galaxy schema or
fact constellation

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 --- Example of Star Schema

time
time_key item
day item_key
day_of_the_week Sales Fact Table item_name
month brand
quarter time_key type
year supplier_type
item_key
branch_key
branch location
location_key
branch_key location_key
branch_name units_sold street
branch_type city
dollars_sold state_or_province
country

Measures
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 -- Example of Snowflake Schema

time
time_key item
day item_key supplier
day_of_the_week Sales Fact Table item_name supplier_key
month brand supplier_type
quarter time_key type
year item_key supplier_key

branch_key
branch location
location_key
location_key
branch_key
units_sold street
branch_name
city_key
branch_type
dollars_sold city
city_key
city
state_or_province
Measures country
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 -- Example of Fact Constellation
Shipping Fact Table
time item
time_key item_key time_key
day Sales Fact Table item_name
day_of_the_week brand item_key
month time_key type shipper_key
quarter supplier_type
year item_key from_location
branch_key
to_location
branch location_key location riyals_cost
branch_key location_key
branch_name
units_sold units_shipped
street
branch_type riyals_sold city
province_or_state shipper
country
shipper_key
Measures shipper_name
location_key
shipper_type
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 -- A Concept Hierarchy: Dimension (location)

all all

region Europe ... North_America

country Germany ... Spain Canada ... Mexico

city Frankfurt ... Vancouver ... Toronto

office L. Chan ... M. Wind

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 -- Multidimensional Data

 Sales volume as a function of product, month, and region

Dimensions: Product, Location, Time
Hierarchical summarization paths

Industry Region Year

Category Country Quarter

Product

Product City Month Week

Office Day

Month
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 --- A Sample Data Cube

Total annual sales

Date of TV in U.S.A.
1Qtr 2Qtr 3Qtr 4Qtr sum
TV
PC U.S.A
VCR

Country
sum
Canada

Mexico

sum

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 Cuboids Corresponding to the Cube

all
0-D(apex) cuboid
product date country
1-D cuboids

product,date product,country date, country

2-D cuboids

3-D(base) cuboid
product, date, country

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 --- Browsing a Data Cube

 Visualization
 OLAP capabilities
 Interactive manipulation

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 -- Typical OLAP Operations

 Roll up (drill-up): summarize data

 by climbing up hierarchy or by dimension reduction

 Drill down (roll down): reverse of roll-up

 from higher level summary to lower level summary or detailed data,
or introducing new dimensions

 Slice and dice: project and select

 Pivot (rotate):
 reorient the cube, visualization, 3D to series of 2D planes

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 DW and OLAP Technology: An Overview

 What is a data warehouse?

 A multi-dimensional data model

 Data warehouse architecture

 Data warehouse implementation

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 Data Warehouse: A Multi-Tiered Architecture

Monitor
& OLAP Server
Other Metadata Analysis
sources Integrator Query
Reports
Operational Extract Data mining
DBs Transform Data Serve
Load
Refresh
Warehouse
200 150-200

150 100-150

100 50-100

50 0-50

0 Blue
1990
1991 Red
1992
ALL

Data Marts

Data Sources Data Storage OLAP Engine Front-End Tools

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 -- DW Design Process

 Top-down, bottom-up approaches or a combination of both

 Top-down: Starts with overall design and planning (mature)

 Bottom-up: Starts with experiments and prototypes (rapid)

 Typical data warehouse design process

 Choose a business process to model, e.g., orders, invoices, etc.

 Choose the grain (atomic level of data) of the business process

 Choose the dimensions that will apply to each fact table record

 Choose the measure that will populate each fact table record

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 -- Three DW Models

 Enterprise warehouse
 collects all of the information about subjects spanning the entire

organization

 Data Mart
 a subset of corporate-wide data that is of value to a specific groups

of users. Its scope is confined to specific, selected groups, such as

marketing data mart
 Independent vs. dependent (directly from warehouse) data mart

 Virtual warehouse
 A set of views over operational databases

 Only some of the possible summary views may be materialized

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 -- DW Development: A Recommended Approach

Multi-Tier Data
Warehouse
Distributed
Data Marts

Enterprise
Data Data
Data
Mart Mart
Warehouse

Model refinement Model refinement

Define a high-level corporate data model

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 -- Data Warehouse Back-End Tools and Utilities

 Data extraction
 get data from multiple, heterogeneous, and external sources

 Data cleaning
 detect errors in the data and rectify them when possible

 Data transformation
 convert data from legacy or host format to warehouse format

 Load
 sort, summarize, consolidate, compute views, check integrity, and
build indices and partitions
 Refresh
 propagate the updates from the data sources to the warehouse

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 -- Metadata Repository …

 Meta data is the data defining warehouse objects. It stores:

 Description of the structure of the data warehouse
 schema, view, dimensions, hierarchies, derived data definition, data mart
locations and contents
 Operational meta-data
 data lineage (history of migrated data and transformation path),
 currency of data (active, archived, or purged),
 monitoring information (warehouse usage statistics, error reports, audit
trails)
 The algorithms used for summarization
 Measure and dimension definition algorithms
 Data granularity, partitions, subject areas, aggregation, summarization,
and predefined queries and reports

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 … -- Metadata Repository

 The mapping from operational environment to the data warehouse

 Source databases and their contents,
 Gateway descriptions, data partitions, data extraction, cleaning,
transformation rules, and defaults, data refresh and purge rules
 security

 Data related to system performance

 Indices, profiles

 Timing and scheduling of refresh

 Business data
 business terms and definitions,
 ownership of data
 charging policies
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 -- OLAP Server Architectures

 Relational OLAP (ROLAP)

 Use relational or extended-relational DBMS to store and manage warehouse data
and OLAP middle ware
 Include optimization of DBMS backend, implementation of aggregation navigation
logic, and additional tools and services
 Greater scalability

 Multidimensional OLAP (MOLAP)

 Sparse array-based multidimensional storage engine
 Fast indexing to pre-computed summarized data

 Hybrid OLAP (HOLAP) (e.g., Microsoft SQLServer)

 Flexibility, e.g., low level: relational, high-level: array

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