what is the difference btween olap and oltp?

Answer Posted / anand

OLTP
* Is the E-R modleling,there are more concurrent users,
* It contains normalized tables so there is no redundancy.
* More tables,Joins and less Indexes,
* It stores daily transactional data
* It stores very less data
* It contains mainly current data
* INSERT,UPDATE,MODIFY can be applied on OLTP.
* Performace will be high

OLAP
* It is the Dimensional Modeling
* It contains Denormalised tables there will be redundancy.
* Less tables,Joins and more Indexes
* It stores operational data
* It contains Historical and Present data
* only SELECT clause is applied on OLAP
* It stores very Huge data
* Performance will be low compared with OLTP

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