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On-Line Analytical Processing Salman Azhar

Explore the concepts of OLAP and data warehousing, including star schemas and ROLAP techniques, in this informative presentation.

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On-Line Analytical Processing Salman Azhar

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  1. On-Line Analytical Processing Salman Azhar Warehousing Data Cubes Data Mining These slides use some figures, definitions, and explanations from Elmasri-Navathe’s Fundamentals of Database Systemsand Molina-Ullman-Widom’s Database Systems Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  2. Overview • Traditional database systems • tuned to many, small, simple queries • Some newer “analytic” applications • fewer, more time-consuming, complex queries • New architectures • developed to handle complex “analytic” queries efficiently Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  3. The Data Warehouse • The most common form of data integration: • Copy sources into a single DB (warehouse) and try to keep it up-to-date • Usual method: periodic reconstruction of the warehouse, perhaps overnight • Warehouse essential for analytic queries Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  4. OLTP • Most database operations involve On-Line Transaction Processing (OTLP). • Short, simple, frequent queries and/or modifications • Each involving a small number of tuples. • Examples… : • Looking up a phone number on the web • Sales at cash registers • Selling airline tickets Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  5. OLAP • Increasing importance of On-Line Application Processing (OLAP) queries • Few, but complex queries --- may run for hours. • Queries do not depend on having an absolutely up-to-date database. • Sometimes called Data Mining Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  6. OLAP Examples • Amazon analyzes customer purchases by its customers to recommend with products of likely interest • Compares purchases between customers • Takes longer than customers are willing to wait • Wal-Mart looks for items with sales trends in a region or time period • Presents data to vendors • Used to determine ordering and inventory Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  7. Common Architecture • Databases at branches handle OLTP • Local databases copied to a central warehouse overnight (or periodically) • Analysts use the warehouse for OLAP OLTP OLAP OLTP OLTP Transaction Users OLTP Analysts Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  8. Data Warehouse User Data Access Data Sources Staging Area Data Marts Data Input Data Access Data Warehouse Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  9. Star Schemas • A star schema • common organization for data at a warehouse • It consists of… • Fact table : • a very large accumulation of facts such as sales • often “insert-only” • Dimension tables : • smaller, generally static information • about the entities involved in the facts Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  10. Employee_Dim EmployeeKey EmployeeID ... Product_Dim Time_Dim ProductKey TimeKey ProductID ... TheDate ... Shipper_Dim Customer_Dim ShipperKey CustomerKey ShipperID ... CustomerID ... StarSchema Dimension Table Fact Table Sales_Fact TimeKey EmployeeKey ProductKey CustomerKey ShipperKey Sales Amount Unit Sales ... Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  11. Example: Star Schema • Suppose we want to record in a warehouse information about every car sale: • dealer, car, buyer, day, time, price paid • The fact table is a relation: • Sale(dealer, model, buyer, day, time, price) Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  12. Example, Continued • The dimension tables include information about the dealer, car, and buyer “dimensions”: • Dealer(dealer, city, zip) • Car(model, manufacturer) • Buyer(buyer, city, phone) • Recall the fact table: • Sale(dealer, model, buyer, day, time, price) Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  13. Dimensions and Dependent Attributes • Two classes of fact-table attributes: • Dimension attributes : • the key of a dimension table • Sale(dealer, model, buyer, day, time, price) • Dependent attributes : • a value determined by the dimension attributes of the row • Sale(dealer, model, buyer, day, time, price) • E.g., price determined by the combination of dealer, model, buyer, day, time Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  14. Example: Dependent Attribute • price is determined by • the combination of dimension attributes: • dealer, car, buyer, and the time (combination of day and time attributes). Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  15. Approaches to Building Warehouses • ROLAP = “relational OLAP”: • Tune a relational DBMS to support star schemas • MOLAP = “multidimensional OLAP”: • Use a specialized DBMS with a model such as the “data cube” Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  16. ROLAP Techniques • Bitmap indexes : • For each key value of a dimension table (e.g., each model for relation Cars) • create a bit-vector telling which tuples of the fact table have that value • Materialized views : • Store the answers to several useful queries (views) in the warehouse itself • Stored views! Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  17. Typical OLAP Queries • Often, OLAP queries begin with a “star join”: • the natural join of the fact table with all or most of the dimension tables • Recall the tables: Sales(dealer, model, buyer, day, time, price) Dealers(dealer, city, zip) Cars(model, manufacturer) Buyers(buyer, city, phone) • Example: SELECT * FROM Sales, Dealers, Cars, Buyers WHERE Sales.dealer = Dealers.dealer AND Sales.model = Cars.model AND Sales.buyer = Buyers.buyer; Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  18. Typical OLAP Queries --- 2 • The typical OLAP query will: • Start with a star join • Select for interesting tuples, based on dimension data • Group by one or more dimensions • Aggregate certain attributes of the result Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  19. Example: OLAP Query • For each dealer in Indianapolis • find the total sales of each car manufactured by BMW • Filter: • city = “Indianapolis” manf = “BMW” • Grouping: • by dealer and car • Aggregation: • Sum of price GROUP EXERCISE:Write the SQL Query Note: Do not turn over to the next page before attempting this exercise yourself! Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  20. Example: In SQL SELECT dealer, model, SUM(price) FROM Sales NATURAL JOIN Dealers NATURAL JOIN Cars WHERE Dealer.city = ’Indianapolis’ AND Car.manf = ’BMW’ GROUP BY dealer, model; Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  21. Using Materialized Views • A direct execution of this query from Sales and the dimension tables could take too long • If we create a materialized view that contains enough information, • we may be able to answer our query much faster Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  22. Example: Materialized View • Which views could help with our query? • Key issues: • It must join Sales, Dealers, and Cars, at least • It must group by at least dealer and car • It must not select out Indianapolis Dealers or BMW Cars • It must not project out city or manf Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  23. Since dealer -> city and model -> manf, there is no real grouping. We need city and manf in the SELECT. Example --- Continued • Here is a materialized view that could help: CREATE VIEW vSales(dealer, city, car, manf, sales) AS SELECT dealer, city, model, manf, SUM(price) sales FROM Sales NATURAL JOIN Dealers NATURAL JOIN Cars GROUP BY dealer, city, model, manf; Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  24. Example --- Concluded • Here’s our query using the materialized view vSales: SELECT dealer, car, sales FROM vSales WHERE city = ’Indianapolis’ AND manf = ’BMW’; Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  25. MOLAP and Data Cubes • Keys of dimension tables are the dimensions of a hypercube • Example: for the Sales data, the four dimensions are Dealers, Cars, Buyers, and time • Dependent attributes (e.g., price) appear at the points of the cube Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  26. Defining a Cube Atlanta Chicago Market Dimension Denver Grapes Cherries Detroit Melons Products Dimension Apples Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Time Dimension Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  27. Querying a Cube SalesFact Atlanta Chicago MarketsDimension Denver Grapes Cherries Dallas Melons Apples ProductsDimension Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 TimeDimension Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  28. Defining a Cube Slice Atlanta Chicago Markets Dimension Denver Grapes Cherries Detroit Melons Apples ProductsDimension Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Time Dimension Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  29. Working with Dimensions and Hierarchies • Dimensions Allow You to • Slice • Dice • Hierarchies Allow You to • Drill Down • Drill Up Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  30. Marginals • The data cube also includes aggregation (typically SUM) along the margins of the cube • The marginals include • aggregations over one dimension, two dimensions,… Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  31. Example: Marginals • Our 4-dimensional Sales cube includes • the sum of price over each dealer, each car, each buyer, and each time unit (perhaps days) • It would also have the sum of price over • all dealer-model pairs, all dealer-buyer-day triples,… Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  32. Structure of the Cube • Think of each dimension as having an additional value * • A point with one or more *’s in its coordinates aggregates over the dimensions with the *’s. • Example: • Sales(“Auto Nation”, “Mini Cooper”, *, *) holds the sum over all Buyers and all time of the Mini Coopers bought at AutoNation Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  33. Drill-Down • Drill-down = “de-aggregate” • = break an aggregate into its constituents • Example: • having determined that Auto Nation sells very few BMW Cars, • break down his sales by particular car Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  34. Roll-Up • Roll-up • = aggregate along one or more dimensions. • Example: • given a table of how many Mini Coopers each buyer buys at each dealer, • roll it up into a table giving total number of Mini Coopers bought by each buyer Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  35. Materialized Data-Cube Views • Data cubes invite materialized views that are aggregations in one or more dimensions • Dimensions may not be completely aggregated • an option is to group by an attribute of the dimension table Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  36. Example • A materialized view for our Sales data cube might: • Aggregate by buyer completely • Not aggregate at all by car • Aggregate by time according to the week • Aggregate according to the city of the dealer Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  37. Data Mining • Data mining is a popular term for queries that summarize big data sets in useful ways • Examples: • Clustering all Web pages by topic • Finding characteristics of fraudulent credit-card use Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  38. Market-Basket Data • An important form of mining from relational data involves market baskets • sets of “items” that are purchased together as a customer leaves a store • Summary of basket data is frequent itemsets • sets of items that often appear together in baskets Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  39. Example: Market Baskets • If people often buy bread and butter together, the store can: • Put bread and butter near each other and put potato chips between the two • Run a sale on bread and raise the price of butter Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  40. Finding Frequent Pairs • The simplest case is when we only want to find “frequent pairs” of items. • Assume data is in a relation Baskets(basket, item) • The support thresholds is the minimum number of baskets in which a pair appears before we are interested Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  41. Look for two Basket tuples with the same basket and different items. First item must precede second, so we don’t count the same pair twice. Create a group for each pair of items that appears in at least one basket. Throw away pairs of items that do not appear at least s times. Frequent Pairs in SQL SELECT b1.item, b2.item FROM Baskets b1, Baskets b2 WHERE b1.basket = b2.basket AND b1.item < b2.item GROUP BY b1.item, b2.item HAVING COUNT(*) >= s; Salman Azhar: Database Systems

  42. Summary • OLAP vs. OLTP • Two different worlds • Warehousing • Data Cubes • Data Mining • Materialized views • Storing aggregate data Salman Azhar: Database Systems

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