DWH
Technology & Computing abbreviation · Data & Database
| Stands for | Data warehouse |
|---|---|
| Categories | Technology & Computing |
DWH stands for Data warehouse, a data & database abbreviation.
A central repository that integrates historical data from many business systems, structured for reporting and analysis rather than day-to-day transactions. Analysts query it to track sales, finance and operations over time.
Example: Load the CRM and billing data into the DWH so finance can build one revenue report.
Usage notes
Bill Inmon, often called the father of data warehousing, described it in 1992 as a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant and non-volatile collection of data; Ralph Kimball championed dimensional modeling with star schemas. Also abbreviated DW. Cloud warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery and Redshift dominate new deployments.
Related abbreviations
More data & database abbreviations
- DBA – Database administrator
- DBMS – Database management system
- dbt – data build tool
- DDL – Data definition language
- DML – Data manipulation language
- DS – Data science
- EDA – Exploratory data analysis
- EDW – Enterprise data warehouse
- ELK – Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
- ELT – Extract, load, transform
- ERD – Entity-relationship diagram
- ETL – Extract, transform, load