Tuesday, 23 December 2014

DATA MARTS

Data-Marts
data mart is the access layer of the data warehouse environment that is used to get data out to the users. The data mart is a subset of the data warehouse that is usually oriented to a specific business line or team. Data marts are small slices of the data warehouse.

A data mart is a subset of an organizational data store, usually oriented to a specific purpose or major data-subjects, that may be distributed to support business needs. Data marts are analytical data stores designed to focus on specific business functions for a specific community within an organization. Data marts are often derived from subsets of data in a data warehouse, though in the bottom-up data warehouse design methodology the data warehouse is created from the union of organizational data marts.

Reasons for creating a data mart
1.    Easy access to frequently needed data
2.    Creates collective view by a group of users
3.    Improves end-user response time
4.    Ease of creation
5.    Lower cost than implementing a full Data warehouse
6.    Potential users are more clearly defined than in a full Data warehouse

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