Storing Detailed Information
- Mainly in Relational Database Model
- Star Schema
- A Fact Table and Dimension Tables
- Fact Table: History of transaction
- Dimension Table: Master data
- Each entry in a Fact Table is a primary key of some Dimension Table
- A Fact Table has a great number of tuples
- A Fact Table and Dimension Tables
- Snowflake Schema
- Hierarchical structure of a Dimension Table
- Capable of reducing redundant entries
- Hierarchical structure of a Dimension Table
##Storing Summary Information
- Multidimensional Data
- also called as a Data Cube
- Applying Group‐By and other aggregate functions for the Fact Table by some attributes of Dimension tables, beforehand.
- to speed up the performance of common queries
- some operations are available for Data Cubes