The WHIPS prototype for data warehouse creation and maintenance

Abstract

A data warehouse is a repository of integrated information from distributed, autonomous, and possibly heterogeneous, sources. In effect, the warehouse stores one or more materialized views of the source data. The data is then readily available to user applications for querying and analysis. Figure 1 shows the basic architecture of a warehouse: data is collected from each source, integrated with data from other sources, and stored at the warehouse. Users then access the data directly from the warehouse.