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Data Warehousing in Cloud Environments

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Cloud Data Warehousing; Cloud Warehousing; Data Warehousing as a Service

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Data warehousing was born in business information systems environments dominated by relational databases running on traditional servers. Later, the types of source data and source systems widened, and the deployment environments increasingly included high-end MPP systems. Today, data warehousing has joined the cloud computing wave, running DW systems on both private, public, and hybrid clouds, based mainly on clusters of commodity machines. Cloud-based data warehouses employ components for cloud-based data storage, querying, and processing, often using file-based storage of complex, non-relational, types of data. A widely used platform is Hadoop, the open-source version of Google’s MapReduce platform for scalable dataflow processing on commodity clusters, which was among the earliest systems for cloud data warehousing. While Hadoop is scalable, fault tolerant, and versatile, it is not...

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Thomsen, C., Pedersen, T.B. (2018). Data Warehousing in Cloud Environments. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_80623

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