Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies |
Editors | Sherif Sakr, Albert Zomaya |
Number of pages | 5 |
Publisher | Springer Publishing Company |
Publication date | 6 May 2018 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-319-63962-8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 6 May 2018 |
Abstract
ETL is short for Extract-Transform-Load. The ETL process extracts data from operational source systems, transforms the data, and loads the data into a target. The transformations to perform on the data can involve a plethora of different activities, e.g., filtering, normalization or de-normalization to a desired form, joins, conversion, and cleansing to remove bad or dirty
data. In the ELT variant, the data is extracted from the source systems, loaded in its raw form into the target, and then transformed.
data. In the ELT variant, the data is extracted from the source systems, loaded in its raw form into the target, and then transformed.
Keywords
- Extract-Transform-Load
- ETL