Data Warehouse are centralized repositories of data. They are use for data analysis and reporting to make informed decisions. Usually, data warehouses centralize data across multiple sources, including transactional systems or relational databases. In order to integrate data into a Data Warehouse, we use extract, transform, load or extract, load, transform workflows.
Some examples of the most used cloud Data Warehouses:
- BigQuery from Google
- Snowflake
- Redshift from amazon
- Synapse Analytics from Microsoft
- Firebolt
- Clickhouse
- Databricks
What’s next?
- Let’s deep-dive into BigQuery, the data warehouse of Google Cloud Platform.
References
What is a Data Warehouse? [Online]. Available at: https://cloud.google.com/learn/what-is-a-data-warehouse [Accessed 4 April 2025]. (2025). Data warehouse. [Online]. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_warehouse [Accessed 4 April 2025]. What is a Data Warehouse? - Data Warehouse Explained - AWS. [Online]. Available at: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/data-warehouse/ [Accessed 4 April 2025].