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Olap Vs Oltp: Online Analytical Processing

OLAP vs OLTP OLAP is used for online analytical processing and enables multi-dimensional analysis of large amounts of historical and operational data stored in OLAP cubes. OLTP is used for online transaction processing and facilitates data entry and retrieval transactions with an emphasis on fast query processing and data integrity for operational tasks. Key differences are that OLAP uses consolidated data for planning and decision making, supports complex queries on historical data, uses de-normalized schemas, and has batch refreshed data while OLTP is the source of operational data used for business processes and supports simple, standardized queries on current data with normalized schemas.

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Olap Vs Oltp: Online Analytical Processing

OLAP vs OLTP OLAP is used for online analytical processing and enables multi-dimensional analysis of large amounts of historical and operational data stored in OLAP cubes. OLTP is used for online transaction processing and facilitates data entry and retrieval transactions with an emphasis on fast query processing and data integrity for operational tasks. Key differences are that OLAP uses consolidated data for planning and decision making, supports complex queries on historical data, uses de-normalized schemas, and has batch refreshed data while OLTP is the source of operational data used for business processes and supports simple, standardized queries on current data with normalized schemas.

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OLAP - ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING


SAP BW enables Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) for the staging of information from large amounts of operative and historical data. OLAP technology permits multi-dimensional analyses according to various business perspectives. At the core of any OLAP system is the concept of an OLAP cube (also called a 'multidimensional cube' or a hypercube). It consists of numeric facts called measures which are categorized by dimesnions .The cube metadata is typically created from a star schema or snowflake schema of tables in a relational database. The OLAP Area can be divided into three components : 1. BEx Analyzer 2. BEx Web Application 3. BEx Mobile Intelligence

OLTP - ONLINE TRANSACTION PROCESSING


Online transaction processing, or OLTP, refers to a class of systems that facilitate and manage transaction-oriented applications, typically for data entry and retrieval transaction processing . OLTP has also been used to refer to processing in which the system responds immediately to user requests .The main emphasis for OLTP systems is put on very fast query processing, maintaining data integrity in multi-access environments and an effectiveness measured by number of transactions per second. In OLTP database there is detailed and current data, and schema used to store transactional databases is the entity model (usually 3NF). In general we can say that OLTP provides source data to data warehouses and the OLAP is used to analyze it .So OLTP is also referred as Operative Environment and OLAP as Informative Environment.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OLAP and OLTP

OLTP System

OLAP System

Source of data

Operational data; OLTPs are the original source of the data.

Consolidation data; OLAP data comes from the various OLTP Databases

Purpose of data

To control and run fundamental business tasks

To help with planning, problem solving, and decision support

Processing Speed

Typicall Very Fast

Depends on the amount of data involved; batch data refreshes and complex queries may take many hours; query speed can be improved by creating indexes

Database Design

Highly normalized with many tables

Typically de-normalized with fewer tables; use of star and/or snowflake schemas.

Backup and Recovery

Backup religiously; operational data is critical to run the Instead of regular backups, some business, data loss is likely to entail significant monetary loss and legal liability environments may consider simply reloading the OLTP data as a recovery method

Age Of Data Queries

Current Relatively standardized and simple queries Returning relatively few records

Historical Often complex queries involving aggregations Read

Data Base Operations What the data Reveals Data Set

Add , Modify , Delete , Update and Read

A snapshot of ongoing business processes

Multi-dimensional views of various kinds of business activities

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