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A Review of Star Schema and Snowflakes Schema

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In the new age, digital data is the most important source of acquiring knowledge. For this purpose, collect data from various sources like websites, blogs, webpages, and most important databases. Database and relational databases both provide help to decision making in the future work. Nowadays these approaches become time and resource consuming there for new concept use name data warehouse. Which can analyze many databases at a time on a common plate from with very efficient way. In this paper, we will discuss the database and migration from the database to the data warehouse. Data Warehouse (DW) is the special type of a database that stores a large amount of data. DW schemas organize data in two ways in which star schema and snowflakes schema. Fact and dimension tables organize in them. Distinguished by normalization of tables. Nature of data leads the designer to follow the DW schemas on the base of data, time and resources factor. Both design-modeling techniques compare with the experiment on the same data and results of applying the same query on them. After the performance evaluation, using bitmap indexing to improve the schemas performance. We also present the design modeling techniques with respect to data mining and improve query optimization technique to save time and resource in the analysis of data.

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Iqbal, M.Z., Mustafa, G., Sarwar, N., Wajid, S.H., Nasir, J., Siddque, S. (2020). A Review of Star Schema and Snowflakes Schema. In: Bajwa, I., Sibalija, T., Jawawi, D. (eds) Intelligent Technologies and Applications. INTAP 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1198. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5232-8_12

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