Scalability Implications for Relational Databases.(Technology Information)

Enterprise Systems Journal,  February, 1999  by Fryer, Ron

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Scalability issues in data warehouses go far beyond storage capacity and affect both large and small organizations. Traditional enterprise systems were data-driven and transaction-based, with each transaction accessing only a few rows of data even in a huge DBMS. Data warehousing is far more complex because it emphasizes data access rather than data storage.

Scalability must include the ability to leverage data as a strategic business resource and can be thought of as encompassing data volume, concurrency, environmental complexity and support dimensions. Warehouses add data volume by ...

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