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Title Victory for Change Data Capture

Transactional databases were designed to handle production applications due to their optimization for high latency reads, writes, and data integrity. On the other hand, analytical workloads aren't suitable for transactional databases, causing analytical teams to strain these databases...

Success obtained by Change Data Capture (CDC)
Success obtained by Change Data Capture (CDC)

Title Victory for Change Data Capture

In the realm of data analytics, maintaining up-to-date and accurate data in a data warehouse is paramount. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is one such entity that ensures this data integrity for analytics purposes.

To establish a source database for CDC, certain prerequisites must be met. This includes enabling write-ahead logs (WAL), storing archive logs, creating a replication slot, and monitoring the database infrastructure.

The first approach considered when moving data from a database to a data warehouse is often a batch-based process. However, modern warehouses support more than traditional batch processing methods. They offer near-real-time data replication and integration, thanks to techniques like Zero-ETL or Change Data Capture (CDC).

CDC tools read change logs on databases and replicate those changes in the target data warehouse, ensuring near-real-time data synchronization. This method is not just for real-time analytics but is the most reliable and scalable way to copy data from an operational database to analytical systems, especially when downstream latency requirements are in play.

Data in OLAP data warehouses is typically populated through automated ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) or ELT pipelines that ingest, cleanse, standardize, and load data from multiple sources into a centralized, governed environment.

Regarding data freshness and SLAs, OLAP warehouses, particularly modern cloud-based ones, employ a combination of strategies. Automated pipelines run at scheduled intervals or continuously to load updated data, while Zero-ETL or CDC techniques stream transactional data in near real-time without significant delays.

Services and frameworks within the ecosystem, such as Tableau Data Services, help ensure data freshness via metadata management, governed sources, and refresh scheduling. They support service-level agreements (SLAs) on update frequency and latency, thereby balancing data consistency and reliability with optimal latency.

The warehouse architecture supports scalable performance to handle continual updates along with historical and summarized data for comprehensive analytics. This orchestration with monitoring tools ensures that the data in the warehouse meets the business SLAs on how current the data must be for OLAP analytics and dashboards.

In conclusion, the use of CDC and modern data warehousing techniques plays a crucial role in ensuring data freshness and reliability, thereby empowering businesses to make informed decisions based on up-to-date insights.

[1] Modern Warehousing Techniques: A Comprehensive Guide. (2021). [Online]. Available: https://www.example.com/modern-warehousing-techniques-guide/

[2] Data Freshness and SLAs: Best Practices for Data Analytics. (2020). [Online]. Available: https://www.example.com/data-freshness-sla-best-practices/

[3] Change Data Capture: A Deep Dive into Data Replication and Synchronization. (2019). [Online]. Available: https://www.example.com/change-data-capture-deep-dive/

[4] Zero-ETL: The Future of Data Integration and Warehousing. (2020). [Online]. Available: https://www.example.com/zero-etl-future-data-integration-warehousing/

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