Automated Integration of Heterogeneous Data Warehouse Schemas

Automated Integration of Heterogeneous Data Warehouse Schemas

Marko Banek, Boris Vrdoljak, A Min Tjoa, Zoran Skocir
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/jdwm.2008100101
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Abstract

A federated data warehouse is a logical integration of data warehouses applicable when physical integration is impossible due to privacy policy or legal restrictions. In healthcare systems federated data warehouses are a most feasible source of data for deducing guidelines for evidence-based medicine based on data material from different participating institutions. In order to enable the translation of queries in a federated approach, schemas of the federated warehouse and the local warehouses must be matched. In this paper we present a procedure that enables the matching process for schema structures specific to the multidimensional model of data warehouses: facts, measures, dimensions, aggregation levels and dimensional attributes. Similarities between warehouse-specific structures are computed by using linguistic and structural comparison. The calculated values are used to create necessary mappings.

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