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Lecture 2 - Data Warehouse Architecture
Lecture 2 - Data Warehouse Architecture
Individually Less
Structured
History
Departmentally
Normalized
Structured
Detailed
Organizationally More
Structured Data Warehouse
Data
Data Warehouse vs Data Mart
Vertical-tier and Horizontal-tier architecture
DW ARCHITECTURE IN PRACTICE
Vertical Tier
• Popular ones are
Generic Two-Tier Architecture
Three-Tier Architecture
Two-Tier Architecture
Thin Client
• Operations are executed on the server side
• The client is just used to display the results
• This architecture fits well for Internet DW
access
Fat Client
• The server just delivers the data e.g., the
corresponding data mart
• Operations are executed on the client
• Communication between client and server
must be stable to sustain large data transfers
Three Tier Architecture
Tier 3: reporting
and analysis
2. Technologically distributed DW
• Placing the DW on the distributed technology of
some vendor
Entry costs are cheap – large centralized hardware is expensive
No theoretical limit on how much data can be placed in the DW
–new servers can be added to the network on demand
Types of Distributed DW
3. Independently evolving distributed DW
• Developed concurrently in organizations
• One DW is built and operationalized
Once successfully, other parts of the organization follow
independently
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