Saturday, August 27, 2011

Galaxy schema

Galaxy schema contains many fact tables with some common dimensions (conformed dimensions) This schema is a combination of many data marts. One fact table may represent one data mart
It is also known as fact constellation schema It is a combination of star schema and snow flack schema. As discussed earlier it consists of conformed dimensions.
The dimensions in this schema are segregated into independent dimensions based on the levels of hierarchy. For example, if geography has four levels of hierarchy like region, country, state and city; constellation schema would have four dimensions instead of one.

As we see in the two star schemas as below, the two fact tables, sales table and purchase table are now sharing both the 'product' and 'time' dimension tables. Therefore we decide to choose Galaxy Schema as the model for our data warehouse, which is displayed as follow:

Star schema for sales



As per galaxy schema:





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