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Table 4 Comparison of data warehouses

From: A data warehouse to support web site automation

Data warehouse

Architecture

Number of fact tables

Number of dimension tables

Zaïane et al. 1998 [29]

Star schema

1

9

Buchner and Mulvenna 1998 [23]

Snowflake schema

1

5

Bonchi et al. 2001 [22]

Star schema

1

2

Joshi et al. 2003 [25]

Star schema

1

5

Hu and Cercone 2004 [24]

Star schema

2

8

Wu et al. 2004 [28]

Star schema

1

3

Thor et al. 2005 [27]

Star schema

2

9

Velasquez and Palade 2008 [8]

Star schema

1

7

Moya et al. 2011 [26]

Snowflake schema

3

4

Our proposal

Star schema

3

6