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
Metadata & OLAP Server
Other
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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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
location
branch 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 18
 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
o n
gi

Industry Region Year

Re

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
ct

TV
du

PC U.S.A
o
Pr

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 Promotion Organization
footprint 27
Browsing a Data Cube

 Visualization
 OLAP capabilities
 Interactive manipulation
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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

Mart Mart 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

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)
 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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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?
2n
 Materialization of data cube
 Materialize every (cuboid) (full
materialization), none (no materialization),
or some (partial materialization)
 Selection of which cuboids to materialize
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Based on size, sharing, access frequency, etc. 36
 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)
(city) (item) (year)
FROM SALES
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 RecID Asia Europe Am erica 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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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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 Attribute-Oriented Induction
 Proposed in 1989 (KDD ‘89 workshop)
 Not confined to categorical data nor particular
measures
 How it is done?
 Collect the task-relevant data (initial relation) using
a relational database query
 Perform generalization by attribute removal or
attribute generalization
 Apply aggregation by merging identical, generalized
tuples and accumulating their respective counts
 Interaction with users for knowledge presentation

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 Attribute-Oriented Induction: An
Example
Example: Describe general characteristics of graduate
students in the University database
 Step 1. Fetch relevant set of data using an SQL
statement, e.g.,
Select * (i.e., name, gender, major, birth_place,
birth_date, residence, phone#, gpa)
from student
where student_status in {“Msc”, “MBA”, “PhD” }
 Step 2. Perform attribute-oriented induction
 Step 3. Present results in generalized relation, cross-tab,
or rule forms

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 Class Characterization: An Example

Name Gender Major Birth-Place Birth_date Residence Phone # GPA

Initial Jim M CS Vancouver,BC, 8-12-76 3511 Main St., 687-4598 3.67

Woodman Canada Richmond
Relation Scott M CS Montreal, Que, 28-7-75 345 1st Ave., 253-9106 3.70
Lachance Canada Richmond
Laura Lee F Physics Seattle, WA, USA 25-8-70 125 Austin Ave., 420-5232 3.83
… … … … … Burnaby … …
…
Removed Retained Sci,Eng, Country Age range City Removed Excl,
Bus VG,..
Gender Major Birth_region Age_range Residence GPA Count
Prime M Science Canada 20-25 Richmond Very-good 16
Generalized F Science Foreign 25-30 Burnaby Excellent 22
Relation … … … … … … …

Birth_Region
Canada Foreign Total
Gender
M 16 14 30
F 10 22 32
Total 26 36 62

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 Presentation of Generalized
Results
 Generalized relation:
 Relations where some or all attributes are generalized, with
counts or other aggregation values accumulated.
 Cross tabulation:
 Mapping results into cross tabulation form (similar to
contingency tables).
 Visualization techniques:
 Pie charts, bar charts, curves, cubes, and other visual
forms.

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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
 Data generalization: Attribute-oriented induction
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