Datamart vs. reporting Cube, what are the differences?

Question

The terms are used all over the place, and I don\'t know of crisp definitions. I\'m pretty sure I know what a data mart is. And I\'ve created reporting cubes with tools li

Answer 1

Data mart is a collection of data of a specific business process. It is irrelevant how the data is stored. A cube stores data in a special way, multiple-dimension, unlike a table with row and column. A cube in a olap database is like a table to traditional database. A data mart can have tables or cubes. Cubes make the analysis faster because it pre-calculates aggregations ahead of time.