Data Warehousing and On-line Analytical

Processing

◼ Data Warehouse: Basic Concepts

◼ Data Warehouse Modeling: Data Cube and OLAP
◼ Data Warehouse Design and Usage
◼ Data Warehouse Implementation
◼ Data Generalization by Attribute-Oriented
Induction
◼ Summary

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 What is a Data Warehouse?
◼ Defined in many different ways, but not rigorously.
◼ A decision support database that is maintained separately from
the organization’s operational database
◼ Support information processing by providing a solid platform of
consolidated, historical data for analysis.
◼ “A data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant,
and nonvolatile collection of data in support of management’s
decision-making process.”—W. H. Inmon
◼ Data warehousing:
◼ The process of constructing and using data warehouses

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 Data Warehouse—Subject-Oriented

◼ Organized around major subjects, such as customer,

product, sales
◼ Focusing on the modeling and analysis of data for
decision makers, not on daily operations or transaction
processing
◼ Provide a simple and concise view around particular
subject issues by excluding data that are not useful in
the decision support process

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 Data Warehouse—Integrated

◼ Constructed by integrating multiple, heterogeneous data

sources
◼ relational databases, flat files, on-line transaction

records
◼ Data cleaning and data integration techniques are
applied.
◼ Ensure consistency in naming conventions, encoding

structures, attribute measures, etc. among different

data sources
◼ E.g., Hotel price: currency, tax, breakfast covered, etc.
◼ When data is moved to the warehouse, it is
converted.

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 Data Warehouse—Time Variant

◼ The time horizon for the data warehouse is significantly

longer than that of operational systems
◼ Operational database: current value data
◼ Data warehouse data: provide information from a
historical perspective (e.g., past 5-10 years)
◼ Every key structure in the data warehouse
◼ Contains an element of time, explicitly or implicitly
◼ But the key of operational data may or may not
contain “time element”

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 Data Warehouse—Nonvolatile

◼ A physically separate store of data transformed from the

operational environment
◼ Operational update of data does not occur in the data
warehouse environment
◼ Does not require transaction processing, recovery,
and concurrency control mechanisms
◼ Requires only two operations in data accessing:
◼ initial loading of data and access of data

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 OLTP vs. OLAP
OLTP OLAP
users clerk, IT professional knowledge worker
function day to day operations decision support
DB design application-oriented subject-oriented
data current, up-to-date historical,
detailed, flat relational summarized, multidimensional
isolated integrated, consolidated
usage repetitive ad-hoc
access read/write lots of scans
index/hash on prim. key
unit of work short, simple transaction complex query
# records accessed tens millions
#users thousands hundreds
DB size 100MB-GB 100GB-TB
metric transaction throughput query throughput, response

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 Why a Separate Data Warehouse?
◼ High performance for both systems
◼ DBMS— tuned for OLTP: access methods, indexing, concurrency
control, recovery
◼ Warehouse—tuned for OLAP: complex OLAP queries,
multidimensional view, consolidation
◼ Different functions and different data:
◼ missing data: Decision support requires historical data which
operational DBs do not typically maintain
◼ data consolidation: DS requires consolidation (aggregation,
summarization) of data from heterogeneous sources
◼ data quality: different sources typically use inconsistent data
representations, codes and formats which have to be reconciled
◼ Note: There are more and more systems which perform OLAP
analysis directly on relational databases
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Data Warehouse: A Multi-Tiered Architecture

Monitor
& OLAP Server
Other Metadata
sources Integrator

Analysis
Operational Extract Query
DBs Transform Data Serve Reports
Load
Refresh
Warehouse Data mining

Data Marts

Data Sources Data Storage OLAP Engine Front-End Tools

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 Three Data Warehouse Models
◼ Enterprise warehouse
◼ collects all of the information about subjects spanning

the entire organization

◼ Data Mart
◼ a subset of corporate-wide data that is of value to a

specific groups of users. Its scope is confined to

specific, selected groups, such as marketing data mart
◼ Independent vs. dependent (directly from warehouse) data mart
◼ Virtual warehouse
◼ A set of views over operational databases

◼ Only some of the possible summary views may be

materialized
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Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL)
◼ Data extraction
◼ get data from multiple, heterogeneous, and external
sources
◼ Data cleaning
◼ detect errors in the data and rectify them when possible

◼ Data transformation
◼ convert data from legacy or host format to warehouse
format
◼ Load
◼ sort, summarize, consolidate, compute views, check
integrity, and build indicies and partitions
◼ Refresh
◼ propagate the updates from the data sources to the
warehouse
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 Metadata Repository
◼ Meta data is the data defining warehouse objects. It stores:
◼ Description of the structure of the data warehouse
◼ schema, view, dimensions, hierarchies, derived data defn, data
mart locations and contents
◼ Operational meta-data
◼ data lineage (history of migrated data and transformation path),
currency of data (active, archived, or purged), monitoring
information (warehouse usage statistics, error reports, audit trails)
◼ The algorithms used for summarization
◼ The mapping from operational environment to the data warehouse
◼ Data related to system performance
◼ warehouse schema, view and derived data definitions

◼ Business data
◼ business terms and definitions, ownership of data, charging policies
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 Chapter 4: Data Warehousing and On-line
Analytical Processing

◼ Data Warehouse: Basic Concepts

◼ Data Warehouse Modeling: Data Cube and OLAP
◼ Data Warehouse Design and Usage
◼ Data Warehouse Implementation
◼ Data Generalization by Attribute-Oriented
Induction
◼ Summary

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 From Tables and Spreadsheets to
Data Cubes
◼ A data warehouse is based on a multidimensional data model
which views data in the form of a data cube
◼ A data cube, such as sales, allows data to be modeled and viewed in
multiple dimensions
◼ Dimension tables, such as item (item_name, brand, type), or
time(day, week, month, quarter, year)
◼ Fact table contains measures (such as dollars_sold) and keys
to each of the related dimension tables
◼ In data warehousing literature, an n-D base cube is called a base
cuboid. The top most 0-D cuboid, which holds the highest-level of
summarization, is called the apex cuboid. The lattice of cuboids
forms a data cube.
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 Cube: A Lattice of Cuboids

all
0-D (apex) cuboid

time item location supplier

1-D cuboids

time,location item,location location,supplier

time,item 2-D cuboids
time,supplier item,supplier

time,location,supplier
3-D cuboids
time,item,location
time,item,supplier item,location,supplier

4-D (base) cuboid

time, item, location, supplier

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 Conceptual Modeling of Data Warehouses

◼ Modeling data warehouses: dimensions & measures

◼ Star schema: A fact table in the middle connected to a
set of dimension tables
◼ Snowflake schema: A refinement of star schema
where some dimensional hierarchy is normalized into a
set of smaller dimension tables, forming a shape
similar to snowflake
◼ Fact constellations: Multiple fact tables share
dimension tables, viewed as a collection of stars,
therefore called galaxy schema or fact constellation

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 Example of Star Schema
time
time_key item
day item_key
day_of_the_week Sales Fact Table item_name
month brand
quarter time_key type
year supplier_type
item_key
branch_key
branch location
location_key
branch_key location_key
branch_name units_sold street
branch_type city
dollars_sold state_or_province
country
avg_sales
Measures

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 Example of Snowflake Schema
time
time_key item
day item_key supplier
day_of_the_week Sales Fact Table item_name supplier_key
month brand supplier_type
quarter time_key type
year item_key supplier_key

branch_key
branch location
location_key
location_key
branch_key
units_sold street
branch_name
city_key
branch_type
dollars_sold city
city_key
avg_sales city
state_or_province
Measures country

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 Example of Fact Constellation
time
time_key item Shipping Fact Table
day item_key
day_of_the_week Sales Fact Table item_name time_key
month brand
quarter time_key type item_key
year supplier_type shipper_key
item_key
branch_key from_location

branch location_key location to_location

branch_key location_key dollars_cost
branch_name
units_sold
street
branch_type dollars_sold city units_shipped
province_or_state
avg_sales country shipper
Measures shipper_key
shipper_name
location_key
shipper_type 19
 A Concept Hierarchy:
Dimension (location)

all all

region Europe ... North_America

country Germany ... Spain Canada ... Mexico

city Frankfurt ... Vancouver ... Toronto

office L. Chan ... M. Wind

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 Data Cube Measures: Three Categories

◼ Distributive: if the result derived by applying the function

to n aggregate values is the same as that derived by
applying the function on all the data without partitioning
◼ E.g., count(), sum(), min(), max()
◼ Algebraic: if it can be computed by an algebraic function
with M arguments (where M is a bounded integer), each of
which is obtained by applying a distributive aggregate
function
◼ E.g., avg(), min_N(), standard_deviation()
◼ Holistic: if there is no constant bound on the storage size
needed to describe a subaggregate.
◼ E.g., median(), mode(), rank()
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View of Warehouses and Hierarchies

Specification of hierarchies
◼ Schema hierarchy
day < {month <
quarter; week} < year
◼ Set_grouping hierarchy
{1..10} < inexpensive

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 Multidimensional Data

◼ Sales volume as a function of product, month,

and region
Dimensions: Product, Location, Time
Hierarchical summarization paths

Industry Region Year

Category Country Quarter

Product

Product City Month Week

Office Day

Month
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 A Sample Data Cube

Total annual sales

Date of TVs in U.S.A.
1Qtr 2Qtr 3Qtr 4Qtr sum
TV
PC U.S.A
VCR

Country
sum
Canada

Mexico

sum

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 Cuboids Corresponding to the Cube

all
0-D (apex) cuboid
product date country
1-D cuboids

product,date product,country date, country

2-D cuboids

3-D (base) cuboid

product, date, country

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 Typical OLAP Operations
◼ Roll up (drill-up): summarize data
◼ by climbing up hierarchy or by dimension reduction
◼ Drill down (roll down): reverse of roll-up
◼ from higher level summary to lower level summary or
detailed data, or introducing new dimensions
◼ Slice and dice: project and select
◼ Pivot (rotate):
◼ reorient the cube, visualization, 3D to series of 2D planes
◼ Other operations
◼ drill across: involving (across) more than one fact table
◼ drill through: through the bottom level of the cube to its
back-end relational tables (using SQL)

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Fig. 3.10 Typical OLAP
Operations

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 A Star-Net Query Model
Customer Orders
Shipping Method
Customer
CONTRACTS
AIR-EXPRESS

ORDER
TRUCK
PRODUCT LINE
Time Product
ANNUALY QTRLY DAILY PRODUCT ITEM PRODUCT GROUP
CITY
SALES PERSON
COUNTRY
DISTRICT

REGION
DIVISION
Location Each circle is
called a footprint Promotion Organization
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Browsing a Data Cube

◼ Visualization
◼ OLAP capabilities
◼ Interactive manipulation
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 Chapter 4: Data Warehousing and On-line
Analytical Processing

◼ Data Warehouse: Basic Concepts

◼ Data Warehouse Modeling: Data Cube and OLAP
◼ Data Warehouse Design and Usage
◼ Data Warehouse Implementation
◼ Data Generalization by Attribute-Oriented
Induction
◼ Summary

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 Design of Data Warehouse: A Business
Analysis Framework
◼ Four views regarding the design of a data warehouse
◼ Top-down view
◼ allows selection of the relevant information necessary for the
data warehouse
◼ Data source view
◼ exposes the information being captured, stored, and
managed by operational systems
◼ Data warehouse view
◼ consists of fact tables and dimension tables
◼ Business query view
◼ sees the perspectives of data in the warehouse from the view
of end-user
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 Data Warehouse Design Process
◼ Top-down, bottom-up approaches or a combination of both
◼ Top-down: Starts with overall design and planning (mature)
◼ Bottom-up: Starts with experiments and prototypes (rapid)
◼ From software engineering point of view
◼ Waterfall: structured and systematic analysis at each step before
proceeding to the next
◼ Spiral: rapid generation of increasingly functional systems, short
turn around time, quick turn around
◼ Typical data warehouse design process
◼ Choose a business process to model, e.g., orders, invoices, etc.
◼ Choose the grain (atomic level of data) of the business process
◼ Choose the dimensions that will apply to each fact table record
◼ Choose the measure that will populate each fact table record
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 Data Warehouse Development:
A Recommended Approach
Multi-Tier Data
Warehouse
Distributed
Data Marts

Data Data Enterprise

Data
Mart Mart
Warehouse

Model refinement Model refinement

Define a high-level corporate data model

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 Data Warehouse Usage
◼ Three kinds of data warehouse applications
◼ Information processing
◼ supports querying, basic statistical analysis, and reporting
using crosstabs, tables, charts and graphs
◼ Analytical processing
◼ multidimensional analysis of data warehouse data
◼ supports basic OLAP operations, slice-dice, drilling, pivoting
◼ Data mining
◼ knowledge discovery from hidden patterns
◼ supports associations, constructing analytical models,
performing classification and prediction, and presenting the
mining results using visualization tools

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From On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)
to On Line Analytical Mining (OLAM)
◼ It integrates OLAP with Data Mining to uncover
knowledge in multi-dimensional databases.
◼ Why online analytical mining?
◼ High quality of data in data warehouses
◼ DW contains integrated, consistent, cleaned data

◼ Available information processing structure surrounding data

warehouses
◼ ODBC, OLEDB, Web accessing, service facilities, reporting and

OLAP tools
◼ OLAP-based exploratory data analysis
◼ Mining with drilling, dicing, pivoting, etc.

◼ On-line selection of data mining functions

◼ Integration and swapping of multiple mining functions,

algorithms, and tasks

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 Chapter 4: Data Warehousing and On-line
Analytical Processing

◼ Data Warehouse: Basic Concepts

◼ Data Warehouse Modeling: Data Cube and OLAP
◼ Data Warehouse Design and Usage
◼ Data Warehouse Implementation
◼ Data Generalization by Attribute-Oriented
Induction
◼ Summary

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 Efficient Data Cube Computation
◼ Data cube can be viewed as a lattice of cuboids
◼ The bottom-most cuboid is the base cuboid
◼ The top-most cuboid (apex) contains only one cell
◼ How many cuboids in an n-dimensional cube with L
levels? n
T =  ( Li +1)
i =1
◼ Materialization of data cube
◼ Materialize every (cuboid) (full materialization),
none (no materialization), or some (partial
materialization)
◼ Selection of which cuboids to materialize
◼ Based on size, sharing, access frequency, etc.
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 The “Compute Cube” Operator
◼ Cube definition and computation in DMQL
define cube sales [item, city, year]: sum (sales_in_dollars)
compute cube sales
◼ Transform it into a SQL-like language (with a new operator cube
by, introduced by Gray et al.’96) ()
SELECT item, city, year, SUM (amount)
FROM SALES (city) (item) (year)

CUBE BY item, city, year

◼ Need compute the following Group-Bys
(city, item) (city, year) (item, year)
(date, product, customer),
(date,product),(date, customer), (product, customer),
(date), (product), (customer) (city, item, year)
()
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 Indexing OLAP Data: Bitmap Index
◼ Index on a particular column
◼ Each value in the column has a bit vector: bit-op is fast
◼ The length of the bit vector: # of records in the base table
◼ The i-th bit is set if the i-th row of the base table has the value for
the indexed column
◼ not suitable for high cardinality domains
◼ A recent bit compression technique, Word-Aligned Hybrid (WAH),
makes it work for high cardinality domain as well [Wu, et al. TODS’06]
Base table Index on Region Index on Type
Cust Region Type RecIDAsia Europe America RecID Retail Dealer
C1 Asia Retail 1 1 0 0 1 1 0
C2 Europe Dealer 2 0 1 0 2 0 1
C3 Asia Dealer 3 1 0 0 3 0 1
C4 America Retail 4 0 0 1 4 1 0
C5 Europe Dealer 5 0 1 0 5 0 1
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 Indexing OLAP Data: Join Indices

◼ Join index: JI(R-id, S-id) where R (R-id, …)  S

(S-id, …)
◼ Traditional indices map the values to a list of
record ids
◼ It materializes relational join in JI file and

speeds up relational join

◼ In data warehouses, join index relates the values
of the dimensions of a start schema to rows in
the fact table.
◼ E.g. fact table: Sales and two dimensions city

and product
◼ A join index on city maintains for each

distinct city a list of R-IDs of the tuples

recording the Sales in the city
◼ Join indices can span multiple dimensions

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 Efficient Processing OLAP Queries
◼ Determine which operations should be performed on the available cuboids
◼ Transform drill, roll, etc. into corresponding SQL and/or OLAP operations,
e.g., dice = selection + projection
◼ Determine which materialized cuboid(s) should be selected for OLAP op.
◼ Let the query to be processed be on {brand, province_or_state} with the
condition “year = 2004”, and there are 4 materialized cuboids available:
1) {year, item_name, city}
2) {year, brand, country}
3) {year, brand, province_or_state}
4) {item_name, province_or_state} where year = 2004
Which should be selected to process the query?
◼ Explore indexing structures and compressed vs. dense array structs in MOLAP
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 OLAP Server Architectures

◼ Relational OLAP (ROLAP)

◼ Use relational or extended-relational DBMS to store and manage
warehouse data and OLAP middle ware
◼ Include optimization of DBMS backend, implementation of
aggregation navigation logic, and additional tools and services
◼ Greater scalability
◼ Multidimensional OLAP (MOLAP)
◼ Sparse array-based multidimensional storage engine
◼ Fast indexing to pre-computed summarized data
◼ Hybrid OLAP (HOLAP) (e.g., Microsoft SQLServer)
◼ Flexibility, e.g., low level: relational, high-level: array
◼ Specialized SQL servers (e.g., Redbricks)
◼ Specialized support for SQL queries over star/snowflake schemas
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 Chapter 4: Data Warehousing and On-line
Analytical Processing

◼ Data Warehouse: Basic Concepts

◼ Data Warehouse Modeling: Data Cube and OLAP
◼ Data Warehouse Design and Usage
◼ Data Warehouse Implementation
◼ Summary

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 Chapter 4: Data Warehousing and On-line
Analytical Processing

◼ Data Warehouse: Basic Concepts

◼ Data Warehouse Modeling: Data Cube and OLAP
◼ Data Warehouse Design and Usage
◼ Data Warehouse Implementation
◼ Data Generalization by Attribute-Oriented
Induction
◼ Summary

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 Summary
◼ Data warehousing: A multi-dimensional model of a data warehouse
◼ A data cube consists of dimensions & measures
◼ Star schema, snowflake schema, fact constellations
◼ OLAP operations: drilling, rolling, slicing, dicing and pivoting
◼ Data Warehouse Architecture, Design, and Usage
◼ Multi-tiered architecture
◼ Business analysis design framework
◼ Information processing, analytical processing, data mining, OLAM (Online
Analytical Mining)
◼ Implementation: Efficient computation of data cubes
◼ Partial vs. full vs. no materialization
◼ Indexing OALP data: Bitmap index and join index
◼ OLAP query processing
◼ OLAP servers: ROLAP, MOLAP, HOLAP

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 Compression of Bitmap Indices
◼ Bitmap indexes must be compressed to reduce I/O costs
and minimize CPU usage—majority of the bits are 0’s
◼ Two compression schemes:
◼ Byte-aligned Bitmap Code (BBC)
◼ Word-Aligned Hybrid (WAH) code
◼ Time and space required to operate on compressed
bitmap is proportional to the total size of the bitmap
◼ Optimal on attributes of low cardinality as well as those of
high cardinality.
◼ WAH out performs BBC by about a factor of two
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