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Clearly state the differences between OLTP and OLAP
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Criteria | OLTP | OLAP |
---|---|---|
Users | Clerks, Employees | Managers & Executives |
Data Source | Data related to day to day business activities | Data obtained by complex aggregated functions. |
Queries | Standard, simple queries | Complex queries involving aggregation |
Query Language | SQL | DMQL |
Access Rights | Read Write | Read only |
Space Requirements | Relatively small | Relatively large |
Backup & recovery | Frequently made | Hardly made |
DB Design | Normalized tables | Few De-normalized tables using star or snowflake schema |
Orientation | Transaction | Analysis |
Type of Data | Current Data | Historical Data |
Apps | Operational customer relationship Mgmt etc. | Decision, Business Mgmt etc. |