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Data Warehouse Vs. Data Mart
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Datamart | Data Warehouse |
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1.Data mart is usually sponsored at the department level and developed with a specific issue or subject in mind, a data mart is a data warehouse with a focused objective. | 1.Data warehouse is a “Subject-Oriented, Integrated, Time-Variant, Nonvolatile collection of data in support of decision making”. |
2.A data mart is used on a business division/ department level. | 2.A data warehouse is used on an enterprise level. |
3.A Data Mart is a subset of data from a Data Warehouse. Data Marts are built for specific user groups. | 3.A Data Warehouse is simply an integrated consolidation of data from a variety of sources that is specially designed to support strategic and tactical decision making. |
4.By providing decision makers with only a subset of data from the Data Warehouse, Privacy, Performance and Clarity Objectives can be attained. | 4.The main objective of Data Warehouse is to provide an integrated environment and coherent picture of the business at a point in time. |
Often holds only one subject area- for example, Finance, or Sales | Holds multiple subject areas |
May hold more summarised data (although many hold full detail) | Holds very detailed information |
Concentrates on integrating information from a given subject area or set of source systems | Works to integrate all data sources |
Is built focused on a dimensional model using a star schema. | Does not necessarily use a dimensional model but feeds dimensional models. |