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Common Warehouse Metadata Interchange (CWMI); CWM
Definition
The Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWMâ„¢) is an adopted specification from the OMG (Object Management Group) standards body. It defines standard interfaces that can be used to enable easy interchange of data warehouse and business intelligence metadata between data warehouse tools, data warehouse platforms and data warehouse metadata repositories in distributed heterogeneous environments. It supports relational, non-relational, multi-dimensional, and most other objects found in a data warehousing environment. It leverages three other standards from OMG:
UML – Unified Modeling Language
MOF – Meta Object Facility
XMI – XML Metadata Interchange
The Object Management Group has been an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium since 1989 with over 700 member organizations.
Historical Background
An initial Request For Proposal (RFP) for a common warehouse metadata interchange (CWMI) was issued...
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Common Warehouse Model (CWM) Specification, Version 1.1, Object Management Group. Needham, 2 March 2003. http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/cwm.htm
CWM Metadata Interchange Patterns Specification, Version 1.0, Object Management Group. Needham, 25 March 2004.
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Peyton, L. (2018). Common Warehouse Metamodel. 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_900
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