Showing posts with label OLTP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OLTP. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Difference between OLTP and OLAP

OLTP

Current data
Short database transactions
Online update/insert/delete
Normalization is promoted
High volume transactions
Transaction recovery is necessary


OLAP
Current and historical data
Long database transactions
Batch update/insert/delete
Denormalization is promoted
Low volume transactions
Transaction recovery is not necessary