What is the purpose of a data warehouse?

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4. What does a data warehouse do?
5. What are the benefits of data warehousing?
6. What is the need of data warehousing?
7. What are the different phases of data warehouse lifecycle?
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10. Is Hadoop good for OLTP?

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