Data Warehousing: Architecture and Implementation
by Mark Humphries, Michael W. Hawkins, Michelle C. Dy
Part 4. Technology
A quick browse through the Process section of this book makes it quite clear that a data warehouse project requires a wide array of technologies and tools. The data warehousing products market (particularly the software segment) is a rapidly growing one; new vendors continuously announce the availability of new products, while existing vendors add warehousing-specific features to their existing product lines.
Understandably, the gamut of tools makes tool selection quite confusing. This section of the book aims to lend order to the warehousing tools market by classifying these tools and technologies. The two main categories, understandably, are:
Hardware and operating systems. These refer primarily to the warehouse servers and ...
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