Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Operational Data Store(ODS)

An operational data store (ODS) is a type of database that's often used as an interim logical area for a data warehouse.ODS was meant to serve as the point of integration for operational systems.
For example,Banks had several independent systems-loans,checking accounts,saving accounts and so on..The teller support computers and ATM helped push many banks to create an ODS to integrate current balances and recent history from these seperate accounts under one customer number.

ODS can be used for integrating disparate data from multiple sources so that business operations, analysis and reporting can be carried out while business operations are occurring. This is the place where most of the data used in current operation is housed before it's transferred to the data warehouse for longer term storage or archiving.

An ODS is designed for relatively simple queries on small amounts of data (such as finding the status of a customer order), rather than the complex queries on large amounts of data typical of the data warehouse.

ODS
  • provides recent data
  • Detailed and lightly summarized data
  • Subject-oriented
  • Homogeneous
  • Support day-to-day decisions & operational activities
  • Individual records, transaction or analysis driven

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