Tag: Hot Data

As business expands, the database or the data warehouse for an OLAP application stores more and more data, and their workload increases. This results in slower response times. Scaling up or scaling out the database is not enough to solve the problem because both are not only expensive but can hardly push the performance up once the database capacity reaches the limit. Separating cold data from hot data is a better solution. It stores and computes the small amount of frequently accessed hot data and the large amount of seldom accessed cold data separately in order to reduce database workload and