There are two ways of approaches to Data Warehouse.
- Top Down approach or Inmon Approach
- Bottom Down approach or Drill Up Approach Or kimball approach
INMON APPROACH (TOP DOWN APPROACH OR DRILL DOWN APPROACH)
- First build data warehouse and then load data marts
- Faster approach
- Bill Inmon definition on data warehouse is – “It is a subject oriented, nonvolatile, integrated, time variant collection of data in support of management's decisions”.
- Data mart are dependent on DWH
RALPH KINBALL APPROACH (BOTTOM UP APPROACH OR DRILL UP APPROACH)
- Ralph Kimball definition on data warehouse is – “Data warehouse is the conglomerate (Composed of heterogeneous materials or elements) of all data marts within the enterprise. Information is always stored in the dimensional model”.
- First build Data Mart and then build data warehouse.
- Data marts are independent.
- Slow Approach
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