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Schema-Data warehouse fundamental part 4

SCHEMA- Collection of fact table and dimensional table.

There are 3 types of schemes.

  1. Star schema
  2. Snowflakes schema
  3. Integrated schema/galaxy schema/fact constellation
STAR SCHEMA

  • Star Schema, every dimension table contains one primary key.
  • Dimensional table contains de-normalized values.
  • Fact table contains foreign keys of dimensional tables
  • The relationship between fact and dimension table is foreign key and primary key
  • Every fact table contains one surrogate key (Surrogate key is system generated key)
  • Surrogate key is system generated key and it contains numerical values.
  • Fact table contains normalized data.
  • Fact table contains numeric’s or measures or facts or KPI (Key performance Indicators)
  • In Fact table, we are storing values at lowest level and this is known as “Fact granularity” or “Grain of Fact”
  • (Data’s are stored in –years-months-weeks-days. Data’s saved in daily basis gives more information when compared with data stored in weekly or monthly basis).
  • Using fact granularity we can analyze data very easily.
  • First we need to load dimensional table values and then we need to load fact table values.
  • We are designing schema by using 3rd normal form. (3NF)
  • (It allows partial duplicates and is used to reduce redundancy in DBMS)
  • (Redundancy- say raj,raj raj…..20 times is reduced to some 3 times)
  • Star schema contains less joins so that performance is more
  • If there are ‘N’ tables, then we will have N-1 joins

SNOWFLAKE SCHEMA



  • In snowflake schema, one dimension table is going to split as multiple dimensional tables.
  • Such scenario occurs when say product ID is 100 (100 is a fact in fact table) which has all brands of toothpaste like colgate, pepsodent, close up, meswak etc which all are different dimension tables.
  • We know colgate is one of dimension table and also we know colgate comes in different forms like colgate gel, colgate white, colgate sensitive etc etc. all these forms sub product of colgate which indeed could be said as there are sub dimension tables of Main dimension Colgate.
  • Dimensional Table contains Normalized data.
  • In this schema, we are having more joins and hence performance is less.
  • Structure of this schema looks like a snowflake and hence the name.
  • Using this kind of schema we can store more data in dimension table.
Difference between star schema and snowflake schema

STAR SCHEMA
SNOWFLAKE SCHEMA
Dimension table contains denormalized data
Dimension table contains normalized data
Less joins are used
More joins
Performance is high
Performance is low
Designing is easy
Designing is difficult
Dimension table contains less data
Dimension table contains more data

Integrated Schema/Galaxy schema/Fact constellation

(In practical we are not using this joins in most of applications)
  • Integrated schema contains Multiple fact tables
  • Combination of two fact table is called fact constellation
  • Joins between two fact tables is called fact joins.

Confirmed dimension: If dimension table is connected with multiple facts, then it is called conformed dimension.
  • This schema contains more joins, so performance is very less.
  • Structure of this schema is very complex
  • Every schema contains time dimension table. Every schema contains one common dimension table, i.e., Time dimension.





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