A data warehouse based on materializing object-oriented views

Data warehouses have become an instant phenomenon in many large organizations that deal with a massive amount of information. The first wave of warehouse systems have been primarily aimed at processing typical data found in relational databases and legacy file systems. As the value of data warehouses has become more apparent to companies, users have been looking at incorporating other types of data into the warehouse environment. The data structures for current warehouses will not be rich enough for such applications. To bridge this gap, we introduce a model for an object-oriented data warehouse. The warehouse model is based on materializing object views and the current prototype has been implemented on top of the POET object-oriented database system.