Warehouse Builder

From Oracle FAQ

Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) is a is a GUI tool used for building Oracle data warehouses and data marts.

Contents 1 Architecture 2 Licensing 3 Also see 4 External links

Architecture

OWB is written in Java. Current version is OWB 10g. Versions are provided for

• Microsoft Windows
• Intel Linux
• UNIX platforms like Solaris, HP-UX and AIX

OWB consists of two main components:

• the design environment, which is concerned with working with meta data (abstract representations of warehouse objects, together with business rules),
• and the runtime environment, which takes this meta data and turns it into physical database objects and process flows.

Licensing

OWB is licensed as part of the Oracle Developer Suite.

Also see

• Oracle Data Integrator

External links

• OTN's Oracle Warehouse Builder homepage