The TL;DR
A data warehouse is a special type of database designed for analytics instead of transactions.
There are two types of database use cases: transactional and analytical
Transactional databases like PostgreSQL are built for adding, updating, and removing data, but analytical DBs are for complex queries and joins
Data gets moved from transactional to…
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