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Data Warehousing. Sushanthan Premanath & Indrajith Premanath CSCI 4707. A Quick Summary. The Main Protagonists. Bill Inmon Born 1945 Father of Data Warehousing. Ralph Kimball Born 1944 Commercialized Data Warehousing. Big Data. The data should be de-normalized to 2NF.
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Data Warehousing Sushanthan Premanath & Indrajith Premanath CSCI 4707 A Quick Summary
The Main Protagonists Bill Inmon • Born 1945 • Father of Data Warehousing Ralph Kimball • Born 1944 • Commercialized Data Warehousing
Big Data • The data should be de-normalized to 2NF. • This means you get data redundancy. • This means you need more storage. • The data can retrieved more quickly. • Data Warehousing is to provide aggregate data which is in a suitable format for decision making.
ETL and Data Marts • Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) • E – Extraction: Get the data. • T – Transformation: Make it useful. • L – Loading : Save it to the warehouse. • Data Marts • Don’t mess with the data. • Keep it simple for the user. • Small problems are easier to solve.