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Comparing Warehouses and Databases
The Actian Data Platform enables you to create data warehouses or online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases.
A warehouse gathers or collects data from various sources into a central repository. It enables users to analyze large, multidimensional data sets for business purposes. Warehouses provide advanced querying capabilities.
A cloud database is used to handle day-to-day transactional data that changes often, even on a daily basis. These databases process a great number of transactions. The Actian Data Platform uses a traditional OLTP database that handles insertions, deletions, and updates.
Warehouses
Databases
Collects data from various sources into a central repository
Processes transactional data that often changes
Stores huge amounts of data, including historical data
Holds current data in regular use
Usually 100 GB to 2 TB in size
Usually 10 MB to 100 GB in size
Data is used for analyzing your business
Data used for running your business
Data is processed using queries
Data is processed using transactions
• Unnormalized data may be present
• Redundant data may be present
• Data is normalized
• Data is unique
Last modified date: 01/04/2024