Architecture for database analytics

Question

We have an architecture where we provide each customer Business Intelligence-like services for their website (internet merchant). Now, I need to analyze those data internally (f

Answer 1

The canonical handbook on Star-Schema style data warehouses is Raplh Kimball's "The Data Warehouse Toolkit" (there's also the "Clickstream Data Warehousing" in the same series, but this is from 2002 I think, and somewhat dated, I think that if there's a new version of the Kimball book it might serve you better. If you google for "web analytics data warehouse" there are a bunch of sample schema available to download & study.

On the other hand, a lot of the no-sql that happens in real life is based around mining clickstream data, so it might be worth see what the Hadoop/Cassandra/[latest-cool-thing] community has in the way of case studies to see if your use case matches well with what they can do.