6 of the Best Free Linux Data Warehouse Software

A data warehouse is a repository of an organization's electronically stored data. Data warehouses are designed to facilitate reporting and analysis.

Data Warehouse software provides access to structured and unstructured information and operational and transactional data in real time.

It provides users with all the functionality needed to obtain optimum return from a firm's most important investment -- information.

Consequently, this type of software plays a key part in ensuring that a business remains successful.

Data warehouse software provides much more than just data storage. After all, if you just want to store information relational databases would fit the bill.

Where data warehouse software adds a new dimension is that it offers the means to retrieve and analyze data, to extract, transform and load data, and to manage the data dictionary.

Software included in this article also help users to administer and monitor data quality, to ensure that it is relevant to the business situation.

This article highlights the best data warehouse software that runs under Linux. Although there is not a wide range available, all of the applications featured below are strongly recommended for any business which wants to tap the full potential of its information resources.

Now, let's explore the 6 data warehouse software at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, providing a screenshot of the software in action, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, together with links to relevant resources and reviews.

Data Warehouse Software
Talend Open Studio	Project for data integration based on Eclipse RCP
LucidDB	Power Data Warehouses, OLAP servers and Business Intelligence systems
KETL	Production ready ETL platform
DataCleaner	Data quality application suite for data profiling, validation and comparison
MailArchiva	Email archiving and compliance
Apatar	ETL and mashup data integration