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Star schema

In computing, the star schema or star model is the simplest style of data mart schema and is the approach most widely used to develop data warehouses and dimensional data marts. The star schema consists of one or more fact tables referencing any number of dimension tables. The star schema is an important special case of the snowflake schema, and is more…

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Model

Benefits

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Star schema

Nodes18
Edges17
Triples31
Avg. degree1.89
Density0.111111
Components1

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Star schema

Top relations

related to Benefits · 9
Star schema → Fast, Feeding, OLAP, Query, ROLAP, Simpler, Simplified, Star, The
related to Query performance considerations · 5
Star schema → Analytic, DBMSs, Performance, SSB, Star Schema Benchmark
related to Model · 4
Star schema → Examples, Having, Related, The
related to Use and comparison with the snowflake schema · 4
Star schema → By, Kimball, OLAP, Star
related to Dimension tables · 3
Star schema → Dimension, Dimensions, Time
related to Example · 2
Star schema → Consider, The
related to Typical tables · 2
Star schema → Common, Dimensional
is a · 1
Star schema → important special case of the snowflake schema
see also · 1
Star schema → Data

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Important terminology

schema star fact tables dimension table data dimensions product snowflake attributes schemas used queries performance example time key one simpler

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Star schemais aimportant special case of the snowflake schema0.90text
Star schemarelated to BenefitsStar0.60section
Star schemarelated to BenefitsThe0.60section
Star schemarelated to BenefitsSimpler0.60section
Star schemarelated to BenefitsSimplified0.60section
Star schemarelated to BenefitsQuery0.60section
Star schemarelated to BenefitsFast0.60section
Star schemarelated to BenefitsFeeding0.60section
Star schemarelated to BenefitsOLAP0.60section
Star schemarelated to BenefitsROLAP0.60section
Star schemarelated to Dimension tablesDimension0.60section
Star schemarelated to Dimension tablesDimensions0.60section

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