data warehouse

noun

1. Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization:

   The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.

Other Words From

• data warehousing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of data warehouse¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

I talked about at the top, what in the past, one might’ve only thought about as data warehouses or data lakes, but those have some inherent struggles unto themselves.

From MIT Technology Review

With that, if you want to, for example, graph error rates from your Kubernetes cluster, you wouldn’t have to gather all of this data and send it off to your data warehouse where it has to be indexed before it can be analyzed and graphed.

From TechCrunch

The security-driven data stored in a data lake can be in its native format, structured or unstructured, and therefore dimensional, dynamic and heterogeneous, which gives data lakes their distinction and advantage over data warehouses.

From TechCrunch

Snowflake is the most expensive name in all tech, Nandury wrote in a note, and the firm has “limited” differentiation compared with other data warehouses while also competing with traditional legacy vendors.

From Fortune

Now it’s branching out to meet database uses beyond the data warehouse.

From Fortune