Building a Data Warehouse

Academic project report from Aalborg University (December 2008) by Dovydas Sabonis and Femi Adisa, supervised by Liu Xiufeng. 60-page report covering data warehouse design and implementation as a case study.

Key Topics

• What is a data warehouse and data warehousing
• Why build a data warehouse — business justification
• Design methodology and implementation case study
• ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) considerations

Connection to Vault

Foundational reference for data infrastructure design. Complements the distributed systems perspective in Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Kleppmann) and the system architecture patterns in System Design Interview (Alex Xu).