Data mart
access pattern in data warehouse environments, used to retrieve client-facing data pertaining to a single department, so that each department isolates the use of its own data
A data mart is a structure/access pattern specific to data warehouse environments. The data mart is a subset of the data warehouse that focuses on a specific business line, department, subject area, or team. Whereas data warehouses have an enterprise-wide depth, the information in data marts pertains to a single department. In some deployments, each department or business unit is considered the owner of its data mart, including all the hardware, software, and data. This enables each department to isolate the use, manipulation, and development of their data. In other deployments where conformed dimensions are used, this business unit ownership will not hold true for shared dimensions like customer, product, etc.
Warehouses and data marts are built because the information in the database is not organized in a way that makes it readily accessible. This organization requires queries that are too complicated, difficult to access, or resource-intensive.
While transactional databases are designed to be updated, data warehouses or marts are read-only. Data warehouses are designed to access large groups of related records.
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