Unit I

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

What is a Data Warehouse?

Defined in many different ways, but not rigorously.

A decision support database that is maintained separately from the organizations 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 managements decision-making process.W. H. Inmon Data warehousing:

The process of constructing and using data warehouses

Data WarehouseSubject-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

Data WarehouseIntegrated

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 WarehouseTime 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) Contains an element of time, explicitly or implicitly But the key of operational data may or may not contain time element

Every key structure in the data warehouse

Data WarehouseNonvolatile

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

OLTP vs. OLAP

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

usage access unit of work # records accessed #users DB size metric

Why a Separate Data Warehouse?

High performance for both systems

DBMS tuned for OLTP: access methods, indexing, concurrency control, recovery Warehousetuned for OLAP: complex OLAP queries, multidimensional view, consolidation 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

Different functions and different data:

Note: There are more and more systems which perform OLAP analysis directly on relational databases
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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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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 time item location supplier 0-D (apex) cuboid

1-D cuboids

time,location
time,item

item,location
item,supplier

location,supplier

time,supplier

2-D cuboids

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 day day_of_the_week month quarter year

item
Sales Fact Table time_key item_key branch_key
item_key item_name brand type supplier_type

branch
branch_key branch_name branch_type

location
location_key street city state_or_province country

location_key units_sold dollars_sold avg_sales Measures

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Example of Snowflake Schema

time
time_key day day_of_the_week month quarter year

item
Sales Fact Table time_key item_key
item_key item_name brand type supplier_key

supplier
supplier_key supplier_type

branch_key

branch
branch_key branch_name branch_type

location
location_key street city_key

location_key units_sold dollars_sold avg_sales Measures

city
city_key city state_or_province country
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Example of Fact Constellation

time
time_key day day_of_the_week month quarter year

item
Sales Fact Table
time_key item_key branch_key
item_key item_name brand type supplier_type

Shipping Fact Table time_key item_key shipper_key from_location

branch
branch_key branch_name branch_type

location_key units_sold dollars_sold avg_sales Measures

location
location_key street city province_or_state country

to_location dollars_cost units_shipped shipper

shipper_key shipper_name location_key shipper_type 16

A Concept Hierarchy: Dimension (location)

all region Europe all ... North_America

country

Germany

...

Spain

Canada

...

Mexico

city office

Frankfurt

...

Vancouver ... L. Chan ...

Toronto

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

1Qtr 2Qtr

Date
3Qtr 4Qtr sum

Total annual sales of TVs in U.S.A. U.S.A Canada Mexico sum

Country

TV PC VCR sum

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Cuboids Corresponding to the Cube

all 0-D (apex) cuboid

product

date
product,country

country
date, country

1-D cuboids

product,date

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 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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Other operations

Fig. 3.10 Typical OLAP Operations

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A Star-Net Query Model

Shipping Method Customer Orders Customer CONTRACTS

AIR-EXPRESS
TRUCK Time ANNUALY QTRLY CITY SALES PERSON COUNTRY DISTRICT DAILY ORDER PRODUCT LINE Product

PRODUCT ITEM PRODUCT GROUP

REGION
Location

Each circle is called a footprint

DIVISION Promotion Organization

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Browsing a Data Cube

Visualization OLAP capabilities Interactive manipulation

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Chapter 1: 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
consists of fact tables and dimension tables sees the perspectives of data in the warehouse from the view of end-user
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Data warehouse view

Business query view

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)

Waterfall: structured and systematic analysis at each step before proceeding to the next

From software engineering point of view

Spiral: rapid generation of increasingly functional systems, short turn around time, quick turn around
Choose a business process to model, e.g., orders, invoices, etc.

Typical data warehouse design process

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: A Multi-Tiered Architecture

Monitor & Integrator OLAP Server

Other sources
Operational DBs

Metadata

Extract Transform Load Refresh

Data Warehouse

Serve

Analysis Query Reports Data mining

Data Marts

Data Sources

Data Storage

OLAP Engine Front-End Tools

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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
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)

Operational meta-data

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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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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Data Warehouse Development: A Recommended Approach

Distributed Data Marts
Multi-Tier Data Warehouse

Data Mart

Data Mart

Enterprise Data 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
multidimensional analysis of data warehouse data supports basic OLAP operations, slice-dice, drilling, pivoting knowledge discovery from hidden patterns

Analytical processing

Data mining

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)

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 1: 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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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 n levels?
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

(date, product, customer), (date,product),(date, customer), (product, customer), (city, item, year) (date), (product), (customer) ()

(city, item)

(city, year)

(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. TODS06]

Base table
Cust C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 Region Asia Europe Asia America Europe

Index on Region

Index on Type

Type RecIDAsia Europe America RecID Retail Dealer Retail 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 Dealer 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 Dealer 3 1 0 0 3 0 1 Retail 4 0 0 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 5 0 1 Dealer 5
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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 Sparse array-based multidimensional storage engine Fast indexing to pre-computed summarized data

Multidimensional OLAP (MOLAP)

Hybrid OLAP (HOLAP) (e.g., Microsoft SQLServer)

Flexibility, e.g., low level: relational, high-level: array

Specialized support for SQL queries over star/snowflake schemas
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Specialized SQL servers (e.g., Redbricks)

Chapter 1: 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 1: 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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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 Multi-tiered architecture Business analysis design framework

Data Warehouse Architecture, Design, and Usage

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

Data generalization: Attribute-oriented induction

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Chapter 1: Data Warehousing and On-line Analytical Processing

Data Warehouse: Basic Concepts (a) What Is a Data Warehouse? (b) Data Warehouse: A Multi-Tiered Architecture (c) Three Data Warehouse Models: Enterprise Warehouse, Data Mart, ad Virtual Warehouse (d) Extraction, Transformation and Loading (e) Metadata Repository Data Warehouse Modeling: Data Cube and OLAP (a) Cube: A Lattice of Cuboids (b) Conceptual Modeling of Data Warehouses (c) Stars, Snowflakes, and Fact Constellations: Schemas for Multidimensional Databases (d) Dimensions: The Role of Concept Hierarchy (e) Measures: Their Categorization and Computation (f) Cube Definitions in Database systems (g) Typical OLAP Operations (h) A Starnet Query Model for Querying Multidimensional Databases Data Warehouse Design and Usage (a) Design of Data Warehouses: A Business Analysis Framework (b) Data Warehouses Design Processes (c) Data Warehouse Usage (d) From On-Line Analytical Processing to On-Line Analytical Mining Data Warehouse Implementation (a) Efficient Data Cube Computation: Cube Operation, Materialization of Data Cubes, and Iceberg Cubes (b) Indexing OLAP Data: Bitmap Index and Join Index (c) Efficient Processing of OLAP Queries (d) OLAP Server Architectures: ROLAP vs. MOLAP vs. HOLAP Summary 47