VIDEO: Data Warehouse, Explained: Topic Overview And 4 Top Tools

a data warehouse is a central repository for processing all the data your organization generates both internally and externally as a core component of business intelligence a data warehouse pulls together data from sources like transactional systems and relational databases so that you can analyze your data and create reports and dashboards for more info on what data warehousing is and some top rated products keep watching but if you're in a hurry to find a solution we can help use our product selection tool at technologyadvice.com to get a free list of business intelligence software recommendations click the link in the description below to get started unlike a data lake or data mart a data warehouse doesn't just look at one department team or division but at the whole enterprise this makes data warehousing invaluable in the age of big data when a single organization might process terabytes upon terabytes of data in a year the functions data warehouses perform make them even more useful when you need to look at historical data since these systems can store large amounts of data these tools usually come with features for extracting loading and transforming as well meaning your data is stored in a standardized consistent format that's optimized for the kind of analysis you want to perform in general a data warehouse consists of three tiers the bottom tier is where data is loaded and stored usually from a hard drive or from a cloud source the middle tier is where users can analyze the data and the top tier is a place for generating reports and conducting data mining in the past data warehouses were hosted on-prem but now more and more data warehouse systems are hosted in the cloud once you load and store all the data sources you want to use and prepare them for analysis you can connect your data warehouse to a data analytics tool like tableau microsoft power bi alteryx or sisense there are a number of different data warehouse products on the market but not every tool is made equal let's take a look at some of the best data warehouse tools from one of the most valuable companies in the world and certainly the leader in cloud computing comes amazon redshift redshift is a highly scalable data warehouse tool that offers top functionality in a wide variety of integrations with third-party services combine this with amazon's already enormous presence in the cloud computing space and you have a popular and top rated tool that works for businesses of all sizes amazon redshift is one of the best data warehousing tools on the market but some users complain about its complex user interface and the need for continuous education about new features and updates while it was a late entrant to cloud-based data warehousing oracle autonomous data warehouse is widely considered one of the best cloud-based data warehouse tools on the market users familiar with oracle's database products won't be surprised to find a powerful high-performance system in autonomous data warehouse though experienced oracle users might find the price tag to be easier to stomach that being said oracle is generally considered more costly than some of its competitors for organizations with a budget oracle is a solid choice backed by years of experience and expertise in managing data microsoft azure synapse analytics is a fast powerful data warehouse tool that also includes features for data lakes and data integration this is no small feat considering tools for data lakes and data warehouses have historically been kept separate for a reason some other vendors seem to be heading in this direction as well but at the time of publication microsoft appears to be leading the way towards creating a comprehensive single source of truth for enterprise users true to form with many microsoft products azure synapse offers many features that can take some time to learn but the system makes up for this in part with some pre-packaged solutions and a clean user interface ibm db2 warehouse is a user-friendly data warehouse tool that's capable of handling large volumes of data while remaining accessible to people of varying skill levels in fact you may be able to successfully operate the tool without a database administrator users consistently praise the user interface of ibm db2 which makes for a system that's easy to use it's also relatively quick to get up and running depending on the size of your organization the number of available regions in db2 might come as a disappointment especially for complying with regulations like gdpr still not sure which data warehouse tool is right for you use our product selection tool at technologyadvice.com to get a free short list of business intelligence software recommendations click the button on the left to get started you

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