DATA MART
Reading time: 9 minutes Imagine you run a candy store. Some of the goodies are on display cases for quick access while the rest is in the storeroom. Now let’s think of the sweets as the data required for your company’s daily operations. Instead of combing through the vast amounts of all organizational data stored in a data warehouse, you can use a data mart — a repository that makes specific pieces of data available quickly to any given business unit. Just like display cases in a store. Nowadays, we’re living in the era of Big Data. It’s difficult to operate a business without accumulating and analyzing vast amounts of information. As a result, our lives are increasingly reliant on data storage and processing. According to the research conducted by The Conversation, there are more than 59 zettabytes of data created, shared, and stored worldwide. One zettabyte (ZB) equals a trillion gigabytes. Yet, the experts expect the amount of data to increase three times by 2025. And all th