Terminology

454 terms, tools, patterns and metrics an architect is expected to use precisely. Each one gets a short explanation of what it is, and — where it matters — what it is commonly confused with. Search filters as you type; the column headers sort.

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Term	Kind	Topic	What it is
OLTP vs OLAP	concept	Data Warehousing	Two workload shapes with opposite requirements — many small indexed transactions versus few large scans and aggregations — which is why they belong in different stores.
Slowly Changing Dimension SCD	pattern	Data Warehousing	A strategy for handling attributes that change over time, deciding whether history is preserved and how facts attach to the correct version.
Star Schema	pattern	Data Warehousing	A dimensional model with one central fact table of measurements surrounded by denormalised dimension tables describing them.