Scenario:
Difference between data mart and data warehouse
Solution:
Data Mart
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Data Warehouse
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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.
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Data warehouse is a “Subject-Oriented, Integrated,
Time-Variant, Nonvolatile collection of data in support of decision making”.
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A data mart is used on a business division/ department
level.
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A data warehouse is used on an enterprise level
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A Data Mart is a subset of data from a Data Warehouse.
Data Marts are built for specific user groups.
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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.
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By providing decision makers with only a subset of data
from the Data Warehouse, Privacy, Performance and Clarity Objectives can be
attained.
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The main objective of Data Warehouse is to provide an
integrated environment and coherent picture of the business at a point in
time.
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