What is the very basic difference between data warehouse and operational databases?

Related questions

1. What are OLTP and OLAP?
2. Why denormalization is needed?
3. Is Snowflake OLAP or OLTP?
4. Is OLTP a relational database?
5. What is the advantage of denormalization?
6. Can HBase store unstructured data?
7. What is the difference between OLAP and OLTP?
8. Is data warehouse OLAP or OLTP?
9. What is an OLTP system?
10. Is data warehouse a OLAP?

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1. #modify
2. #operational
3. #allows
4. #while
5. #other
6. #access
7. #needs
8. #warehouse
9. #query
10. #stored
11. #current
12. #database
13. #maintains
14. #historical
15. #operations