A Study of Building Data Warehouse Based on
Making Use of Its System Structure and Data Model
Xianjun Wang
School of Electronic Information & Electric Engineering
Changzhou Institute of Technology
Changzhou, China
richardwangdr@126.com
Abstract—Authors have studied the system structure and data
model of data warehouse in order to build up the data
warehouse. And a new kind of bedding system structure and
bedding data model has been presented. The new method of
building up data warehouse has been studied deeply and
presented based on the system structure, bedding system
structure and bedding data model. It is of great guiding
significance to the building up of data warehouse of industrial
and commercial enterprises.
Keywords- System Structure; data model; data warehouse
I. INTRODUCTION
Data warehouse is a data muster which is of subject
oriented, integrated, relatively nonvolatile, of time variant
included. It is used for the decision process of units or
enterprises.
There are four characteristics of data warehouse according
to the definition of it.
Subject Oriented. The data structure of operation data base
is oriented to affairs process.
Each service system is separate. And the data of data
warehouse is formed by means of some subjects. Subject is a
nonobjective concept which is the main point when decided
through data warehouse. A subject usually has something with
many operation information systems.
Integrated. The operation data base of affairs process
oriented usually has something with some special applications.
Data bases are independent one another. And they are always
isomerous. The disagreeing data of source data must be
eliminated in order to guarantee that information from the data
base be entirely agree to the unit.
Relatively Non-Volatile. The data of operation data base is
usually up grated on line which changed as needed. The data of
data warehouse is used for enterprise decision and analysis.
And the main data operation is data query. In case some data is
in memory, it would be generally reserved for ever. There are
lots of query operations in data warehouse. And there is a few
rework and deletion operation. It is generally in demand of load
and renew.
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Xianyi Qian
School of Electronic Information & Electric Engineering
Changzhou Institute of Technology
Changzhou, China
hbxfqxyqxy_123@163.com
Time Variant Included。The operation data base is mainly
concerned about data of some period. And the data of data base
usually includes historic information from which the
development course and future trend of enterprise can be
worked out in the way of quantitative analysis and forecast. [1]
The construction of enterprise data warehouse is based on
the accumulation of its available services and business data.
Data warehouse is not a static concept. The information can do
its best and be of significance only when it is sent to someone
in time who needs it for his decision. And it is a fundamental
task of data warehouse that the information is packed up,
concluded, recombined and sent to corresponding decider in
time. Therefore, the construction of data warehouse is
engineering, is a course, in the view of industry. [2]。
Data warehouse is becoming the important method of
raising up competition power and analysis of services trend of
enterprise as day by day severity of market competition. Data
warehouse has been applied in finance, telecom, electric power
of our nation lately which are the traditional data process
enterprises.
There are some serious problems in construction of data
warehouse which are needed to solve urgently. The problems
are inadequacy supposing and technology limit which are
presented in the early period of construction of data warehouse,
lack of processing capacity and storage capacity of server when
the data is cleared up, reasoned and loaded to data warehouse,
pervasion of data collection which derived from the
inconsistent system configuration.
There are the same problems as above concerned in the data
warehouse construction practice of finance, telecom, electric
power and so on in the view of the domestic market survey. A
new method of developing data warehouse and overcoming the
above problems has been studied deeply and presented at last
through planning the system structure of data warehouse and
establishing enterprise data model.
II. SYSTEM STRUCTURE OF DATA WAREHOUSE
The information system structure of enterprise is composed
of information system structure, application system structure
and technology system structure which is linked with the
needed strategy information of enterprise. The system structure
of data warehouse is a subset of enterprise information system
structure. A good and filed system structure is a logic
information structure which deals with strategy, aim, policy,
business rule, measurement standard, information requirement,
application system, business requirement, data element and so
on.
There are policies, standard and operation services in the
data warehouse system structure too which defined the
surroundings of enterprise operation system. The enterprise
system structure can be used for some fields as following.
1)The business model is linked with application design
( including design of data warehouse) through linking strategy
requirement with system (data warehouse or data set) in order
to manage the requirement.
2) The identical and correct strategy information is
exported among the operation data or outside data.
3) Data sharing is promoted and there is less of data
redundancy and maintenance cost.
4) There is a promotion of productivity through the
development, management and reuse of component. It is
relatively easy and less cost that the data warehouse
engineering is fulfilled by means of a correct enterprise
structure model. And the user can gain the satisfied result soon
when he operates such data warehouse. The construction and
design of enterprise data warehouse system structure should be
reflected the business requirement and performance
requirement of the enterprise.
The system structure of the entire data warehouse is
composed of four arrangements, as shown in Fig. 1.
Figure 1. System Structure of Data Warehouse System
A. Data Source
Data source is the base of data warehouse. It is source of
data of the data warehouse system. It is composed of the
outside and inside information of an enterprise. The inside
information includes all filed data and all business process data
which are stored in RDBMS. The outside information includes
all rules, marketing information and the information of the
competing counterworker and so on. [3]
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B. Storage and Management of Data
The storage and management of data is the core of the data
warehouse system. The actual key of data warehouse is the
storage and management of data. The organizing and
management mode of data warehouse determines that it is
different from the traditional data base and determines its form
of outside data. The technology specials of data warehouse
determine the products and technology which are used for
building up the core of data warehouse. Gather, clean up,
integrate the data of all business system and organize according
to the subject oriented. Data warehouse can be called as
enterprise data warehouse or department data warehouse
(usually called data sets) according to the covering scope of
data.
C. OLAP Server
There is an effective integration of the data which analysis
is needed to in OLAP Server. And organize the data in multi-
dimensions model in order to analyze the data in all aspects and
all arrangements and find out the trend.
D. Forward Tools
Forward tools mainly include all report forms tool, query
tool, data analysis tool, data mining tool and all application
development tool based on data mining technology and data
warehouse or data sets. Data analysis tool is used in OLAP
Server and repot forms tool and data mining tool are used for
data warehouse.
III. ENTERPRISE DATA MODEL
Data model has been applied in developing the business
which has the clear boundary and rules for a long time. And the
concerned data entity is only not beyond this boundary. The
developer of application and users can focus the scope in this
way. But, the application data model is nothing to the
integrated application or combining data from the different
sources. There is a requirement for the enterprise data model in
order to support this kind application.
The enterprise data model deals with the data entity of the
most common levels in order that all commonness of all
business data are visible and usable. There is a widely using
field of enterprise data model compared with the application
data model.
1) There is a development base for one system and a
promotion of integration of available business.
2) Support the data sharing of different business.
3) Realize the effective management of data source through
defining identical data.
4) Support to establish and maintain integrated management
information system within enterprise.
5) Constructive method has been presented in order to users
can participate in the business strategy.
The traditional enterprise data model is mainly used in
some aspects of the first arrangement and the second
arrangement which above-mentioned. This kind of modeling
method is expensive and dangerous and there are few of
successful examples. One by one method of solving business
problem is used in establishing of enterprise data model. As
shown in Fig. 2, an enterprise data model with bedding
structure is used for subdivision of different fields by Devlin
[4].
Figure 2. An Enterprise Data Model with Bedding Structure
As shown in Fig. 2, enterprise data model is of a
correctitude trigonal bedding construction. There is least
information in the top arrangement but there is most
information in the lower arrangement. The top information is
usually summary information which is composed of 20~30
pieces of commercial concepts. They are the most fundamental
information which understood by all employees.
There are all definitions of all different concepts view in the
business data sorting arrangement. As a general description of
data, it is a start of description of specials of different
enterprises. And above all, it is an interlink of concept of pre-
arrangement to entity of next arrangement.
The upper two arrangements of enterprise data model are
all defined bedding structure. And general entity relationship
model is traditional entity relationship model. A typical general
entity relationship model includes about 200~300 pieces of
entity. It is a detail model with integrity which shows the
entity, attribute, relationship of business of enterprise. [5]
The view of logic application has a close relation with
general entity relationship model in the content. And it is
composed of all independent entities which are the bases of all
applications. The entity of general entity relationship model
may turn on again and again in the view of logic application.
The lower arrangement of model is an arrangement of physical
data design which fulfills some material limit of physical
realization such as performance, data source, data distributing.
The enterprise data model is a model based on practice
business which is always of subdivision from upper to bottom
and from outline to realization. It is not only strong inside but
also enough adaptive. It can fit the change of practice business
of different class through defining some departments.
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A new method is needed in order to realize the different
definition in different stage. At first, the construction of model
begins at the top of the trigon. Its aim is to get the identical
view of operation and management data.
Secondly, the model of data warehouse is a general entity
relationship model. It is difficult to fulfill the whole model in
one time. The general method is to intercept some parts of
model which starts at the logic model of subset chosen and
ends at the definition of physical construction.
The models are all limited in special scope which faced the
material applications. And the aim is that a model subset can be
gained in the application scope and a data base design is
fulfilled through logic application view and physical data
design arrangement. The course of modeling of this
arrangement is the same as the course of traditional application
modeling. The design of data warehouse is similar with the
design of operation system on the surface. Actually, the model
design of data warehouse is very complicated compared with
the design of traditional relationship model. [6]
IV. CONCLUSION
Data warehouse is an integrated technology based on
management and using of data. And it is becoming an
important basis of new generation of application system. A
good system structure of data warehouse ensures the
implement plan of data warehouse, which is the fundamental
guarantee of grading realization of data warehouse. The data
model of enterprise is the core of data warehouse. Data
warehouse is only a set of different data base without enterprise
data model. The grading realization of enterprise data model
results in the grading construction of data warehouse. And
there is an achievement in each stage. The new method of
building up data warehouse is good at the establishment of
enterprise data model. And it is of great guiding significance to
the building up of data warehouse of industrial and commercial
enterprises.
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