- Industry: Software
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Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, servicing, and marketing of database, middleware, and application software worldwide.
A collection of data, usually in the form of tables or files, under the control of a database management system (DBMS).
Industry:Software
A type of analysis in which questions are answered by manipulating the dimensions, dimension values, and layout of data.
Industry:Software
Person responsible for administering, monitoring, and maintaining the database.
Industry:Software
The component of a database that controls all user and system activities related to the core functions of the database, such as security checking, tablespace allocation, and space management.
Industry:Software
Precalculated and prestored summary data that is held in tables in a data warehouse. Aggregated data provides direct access to calculated data that improves query performance. Functions used to calculate aggregated data include SUM, MAX, MIN, COUNT, and AVG. See also summary table.
Industry:Software
Software that allows a user to create and direct specific questions to a database.
Industry:Software
A remote data source that users can query/access via a central gateway that provides a logical view of corporate data in terms users can understand. The gateway parses and distributes queries in real time to remote data sources and returns result sets back to users.
Industry:Software
Software that employs mathematical algorithm(s) to analyse the data contained in a data warehouse. Data mining, OLAP, ROLAP, and other terms are used to designate tools with different functionality. In practice, however, a given analytical tool may provide more than one type of analysis procedure and may also encompass some middleware functionality.
Industry:Software
