DataWarehouse
Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting
information from those text files, and generating reports based on that
information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks.
The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient,
complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).
A Data Warehouse (DW) is a repository of an organization's data, designed
to facilitate reporting and analysis at different levels of aggregation.
The main source of the data is extracted, cleaned, transformed, and made
available to managers and other business professionals for data mining,
online analytical processing, market research and decision support. This
process is called ETL (Extract/Transform/Load).
The Perl Data Warehouse Toolkit is a generic set of tools created to
manage Data Warehouses meta-information, making simple ETL and DW tasks
easy, and complex tasks possible.
WARNING
THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE. It could drink your beer and eat your hamster!
INSTALLATION
To install this module, run the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION
After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.
perldoc DataWarehouse
You can also look for information at:
RT, CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=DataWarehouse
AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/DataWarehouse
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/DataWarehouse
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/DataWarehouse/
The complete source code is available at:
GitHub
http://github.com/nferraz/Perl-Data-Warehouse-Toolkit
LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Nelson Ferraz
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See
http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.
DISCLAIMER
This module is not associated with Ralph Kimball's "Data Warehouse
Toolkit" books. That said, I strongly recommend his books:
* The Data Warehouse Toolkit
http://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Complete-Dimensional/dp/0471200247
* The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit
http://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-ETL-Toolkit-Techniques/dp/0764567578
I also recommend:
* Mastering Data Warehouse Aggregates
http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Data-Warehouse-Aggregates-Performance/dp/0471777099
