Successors to data warehouses…?

A while back, I started to make a list of all the concepts that were being presented to me as superceding the data warehouse.

Why?  Well, why not?  The name of the game is constant technological improvement and innovation; if there’s something better to be had, then it’s always worth looking at it.

The alternatives presented to me over the last couple of months are:

1. Retain the “classic” data warehouse”

2. MPP warehouse appliance

3.  Bus [Kimball] architecture

4. Data Delivery Platform

5. Data Provisioning

6. EII

7. ROLAP (!)

8. DW 2.0

This is obviously quite a mixed bag, that should cause some head scratching.  Are they even commensurate concepts?  Most definitely not, so there’s some explaining to do… in the next post.

Update 30-Jul-09

9.  IBM’s Smart Analytics Optimizer (read about it here: as usual, a uniquely IBM approach!)

~ by Stephen Simmonds on 3 July, 2009.