Friday, 17 July 2015

Difference between Kimball and Inmon approach

The Inmon approach is said to have the Hub and Spoke architecture. The primary feature of the same is the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) which is maintained as a 3NF database. It is slightly different from the Operational database as it is:

1. Subject Oriented
2. Non-volatile - Data doesn't change . Soft delete is present by the use of timestamping.
3. Time variant - Maintains historical data
4. Integrated.

It does not have fact or dimensions, and has a set of functional data marts pulling data out of it.

OLTP  > EDW (3N) >Datamart (3N) >OLAP Cube

The Kimball approach is said to have the Bus Architecture. It contains set of stars i.e de-normalized groups of fact and dimension tables connected via conformed dimension (dimensions common to two facts)

OLTP  > Star Schema (Dimensional Model) >OLAP Cube

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