Data Warehousing involves large volumes of data used primarily for analysis. This category covers applications such as Business Intelligence and Decision Support Systems.
Data Mining
Data Mining analyzes data from a data warehouse, looking for trends and patterns:
Data Warehousing refers to large databases used mostly for querying. You need to understand the performance of certain types of queries, and how to move large quantities of data around. Most of the information on the Administration page also applies here.
The Oracle Retail Data Model is a start-up kit for implementing a retail data warehouse solution. It speeds the development of a data warehouse solution by providing a foundation data warehouse and analytic infrastructure for the reporting needs of a retail operation.