Journal article
Optimizing ETL by a Two-level Data Staging Method
Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark1
Systems Analysis, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark2
DTU Climate Centre, Systems Analysis, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark3
University College of Northern Denmark4
CITIES - Centre for IT-Intelligent Energy Systems, Centers, Technical University of Denmark5
In data warehousing, the data from source systems are populated into a central data warehouse (DW) through extraction, transformation and loading (ETL). The standard ETL approach usually uses sequential jobs to process the data with dependencies, such as dimension and fact data. It is a non-trivial task to process the so-called early-/late-arriving data, which arrive out of order.
This paper proposes a two-level data staging area method to optimize ETL. The proposed method is an all-in-one solution that supports processing different types of data from operational systems, including early-/late-arriving data, and fast-/slowly-changing data. The introduced additional staging area decouples loading process from data extraction and transformation, which improves ETL flexibility and minimizes intervention to the data warehouse.
This paper evaluates the proposed method empirically, which shows that it is more efficient and less intrusive than the standard ETL method.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2016 |
| Pages: | 32-50 |
| ISSN: | 15483932 and 15483924 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.4018/IJDWM.2016070103 |
| ORCIDs: | Liu, Xiufeng and Nielsen, Per Sieverts |
