Data Warehousing & Mining: Unit - Ii
Data Warehousing & Mining: Unit - Ii
Data Warehousing & Mining: Unit - Ii
UNIT – II
•The rationale for the delivery systems component is based on the fact that
once the data warehouse is installed and operational, its users don't have to be
aware of its location and maintenance.
2. Organizational Issues
A Data Warehouse, in general, is not truly a technological issue, rather, it
should be more concerned with identifying and establishing information
requirements, the data sources to fulfill these requirements, and timeliness.
3. Technical Considerations
A number of technical issues are to be considered when
designing and implementing a Data Warehouse environment.
1. The Hardware Platform that would house the Data Warehouse for
parallel query scalability. (Uni-Processor, Multi-processor, etc)
As Data Warehouse grows, there are at least two options for Data
Placement. One is to put some of the data in the data warehouse
into another storage media (WORM, RAID). Second option is to
distribute data in data warehouse across multiple servers. Some
criteria must be established for dividing it over the servers – by
geography, organization unit, time, function, etc. However, the
data is divided, a single source of meta data across the entire
organization is required. Hence this configuration requires both
corporation-wide and the meta data managed for any given server.
4. Implementation Considerations
iv. Metadata
A frequently occurring problem in Data Warehouse is the
problem of communicating to the end user what
information resides in the data warehouse and how it can be
accessed. The key to providing users and applications with
a roadmap to the information stored in the warehouse is the
metadata. It can define all data elements and their
attributes, data sources and timing, and the rules that
govern data use and data transformations. Meta data needs
to be collected as the warehouse is designed and built.
Shared-memory Architecture
Shared Disk Architecture
Shared-nothing Architecture
Combined Architecture