For developing data warehouse (DW) and OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems, the dominant relational database reaches its limitations. On the way of the development, object...
Several surveys indicate that a significant percentage of data warehouses fail to meet business objectives or are outright failures. One of the reasons for this is that requiremen...
Background: This article addresses the problem of interoperation of heterogeneous bioinformatics databases. Results: We introduce BioWarehouse, an open source toolkit for construc...
Thomas J. Lee, Yannick Pouliot, Valerie Wagner, Pr...
Data allocation is a key performance factor for parallel database systems (PDBS). This holds especially for data warehousing environments where huge amounts of data and complex an...
Analytical queries defined on data warehouses are complex and use several join operations that are very costly, especially when run on very large data volumes. To improve response...