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Question 1: Big Data Analytic Platform, options, vendors and Applications

Task 1 Answer to Discussion Question:

1. List five of the analytical platforms. Discuss any of 3 in details.

2. List and Discuss different types of users in future analytical architectures.

3. List and discuss various advantages of integrating various analytical platforms.

4. Difference between performance bottleneck of in-memory database and traditional database?

5. Why columnar storage is used for in-memory database ?

6. Discuss different phases of SAP HANA platform.

7. Discuss some of the applications for in-memory database.

Task 2 Case Study : Continental Airlines Takes Off with Real-time Business Intelligence (We will continue to do this case study in Week 6)

8. Describe "active" data warehousing as it is applied at Continental Airlines.

9. Does Continental apply active or real-time warehousing differently than this concept is normally described?

10. Describe the benefits of real-time data warehousing at Continental.

11. In what ways does real-time data warehousing fit with the Continental strategy and plans?

12. What did the data warehousing group do right that has led to the successful deployment of (real-time) data warehousing and BI within Continental?

13. What elements of the data warehousing environment at Continental are necessary to support the extensive end-user BI application development that occurs?

14. Why does Continental believe that a 3rd normal form enterprise data model is important?

15. What special issues about data warehouse management (e.g., data capture and loading for the data warehouse (ETL processes) and query workload balancing) does this case suggest occur for real-time data warehousing? How has Continental addressed these issues?