Paavai Institutions Department of CSE
CCS341 DATA WAREHOUSING LT PC
2023
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To know the details of data warehouse Architecture
To understand the OLAP Technology
To understand the partitioning strategy
To differentiate various schema
To understand the roles of process manager & system manager
UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO DATA WAREHOUSE 5
Data warehouse Introduction - Data warehouse components- operational database Vs data
warehouse – Data warehouse Architecture – Three-tier Data Warehouse Architecture -
Autonomous Data Warehouse- Autonomous Data Warehouse Vs Snowflake - Modern Data
Warehouse
UNIT II ETL AND OLAP TECHNOLOGY 6
What is ETL – ETL Vs ELT – Types of Data warehouses - Data warehouse Design and
Modeling - Delivery Process - Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) - Characteristics of
OLAP - Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) Vs OLAP - OLAP operations- Types of
OLAP- ROLAP Vs MOLAP Vs HOLAP.
UNIT III META DATA, DATA MART AND PARTITION STRATEGY 7
Meta Data – Categories of Metadata – Role of Metadata – Metadata Repository – Challenges
for Meta Management - Data Mart – Need of Data Mart- Cost Effective Data Mart-
Designing Data Marts- Cost of Data Marts- Partitioning Strategy – Vertical partition –
Normalization – Row Splitting – Horizontal Partition
UNIT IV DIMENSIONAL MODELING AND SCHEMA 6
Dimensional Modeling- Multi-Dimensional Data Modeling – Data Cube- Star Schema-
Snowflake schema- Star Vs Snowflake schema- Fact constellation Schema- Schema
Definition - Process Architecture- Types of Data Base Parallelism – Datawarehouse Tools
UNIT V SYSTEM & PROCESS MANAGERS 6
Data Warehousing System Managers: System Configuration Manager- System Scheduling
Manager - System Event Manager - System Database Manager - System Backup Recovery
Manager - Data Warehousing Process Managers: Load Manager – Warehouse Manager-
Query Manager – Tuning – Testing
TOTAL: 30 PERIODS
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Paavai Institutions Department of CSE
COURSE OUTCOMES:
CO1: Design data warehouse architecture for various Problems
CO2: Apply the OLAP Technology
CO3: Analyse the partitioning strategy
CO4: Critically analyze the differentiation of various schema for given problem
CO5: Frame roles of process manager & system manager
TEXT BOOKS
1. Alex Berson and Stephen J. Smith “Data Warehousing, Data Mining & OLAP”, Tata
McGraw – Hill Edition, Thirteenth Reprint 2008.
2. Ralph Kimball, “The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional
Modeling”, Third edition, 2013.
REFERENCES
1. Paul Raj Ponniah, “Data warehousing fundamentals for IT Professionals”, 2012.
2. K.P. Soman, ShyamDiwakar and V. Ajay “Insight into Data mining Theory and Practice”,
Easter Economy Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2006.