Data warehouse is an archive where historical corporate data is stored and can be analyzed then.
It can use different technologies for data extraction and analyzing.
And OLAP is one of those technologies that analyze and evaluate data from the data warehouse.
A data warehouse is a type of data management system that is designed to enable and support business intelligence (BI) activities, especially analytics.
Data warehouses are solely intended to perform queries and analysis and often contain large amounts of historical data.
Types of OLAP – ROLAP, MOLAP, HOLAP
There are three different types of OLAP based on how data is stored in the database.
ROLAP : stands for Relational Online Analytical Processing.
It stores data in the form of rows and columns.
ROLAP does not pre-compute data; it can be accessed through SQL queries on demand.