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data mart

data mart noun: the access layer of a data warehouse environment, used to distribute a subset of the data to users.

Noun

data mart (plural data marts)

  1. The access layer of a data warehouse environment, used to distribute a subset of the data to users.
    • One of the issues of data warehouses and data marts is how data gets from the data warehouse to the data mart. Data in the data warehouse is very granular. Data in the data mart is very compact and summarized.2002 [1991], W. H. Inmon, Building the Data Warehouse, 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 142

Forms of data mart

pluraldata marts
alternative formdatamart

Origin of data mart

Following the metaphor of a data warehouse.

Questions about data mart

What does data mart mean?
Data mart means the access layer of a data warehouse environment, used to distribute a subset of the data to users.
What part of speech is data mart?
Data mart is a noun.
What is the plural of data mart?
The plural of data mart is data marts.

Words near data mart in the dictionary

  1. data loggers
  2. data maintenance
  3. data management
  4. data manager
  5. data managers
  6. data mart
  7. data marts
  8. data matrix
  9. data matrixes
  10. data member
  11. data members

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