Hi all,
my design effort for the implementation of a PoC of data model, and
supporting ETL services for datawarehouse is slowly progressing (in my
free time) and hopefully soon I will be able to commit some stuff for an
early review from the community.
In the meantime I need some advices for the naming conventions for the
new entities:
1) how should we name the "dimension" entities (products, dates, times,
stores)? Ideally, it'would be nice to use the "<EntityName>Dimension"
(e.g. "ProductDimension") syntax... but unfortunately it would lead to
table names that are too long. Other options are: "<EntityName>Dim"
(e.g. "ProductDim"), "<EntityName>s" (e.g. "Products")
2) same question for the "facts" entities: "<EntityName>Fact" (e.g.
"InvoiceItemFact")?
3) same question for the name of the view entity that implement the star
schema (one fact associated to many dimensions):
"<EntityName>StarSchema" (e.g. "InvoiceItemStarSchema")
4) about the naming conventions for the entity package names, is it ok
to use the following ones?
org.ofbiz.olap.<ComponentName>.dimensions.<DimensionEntityName>
org.ofbiz.olap.<ComponentName>.facts.<FactsEntityName>
org.ofbiz.olap.<ComponentName>.starschemas.<StarSchemaViewName>
Thanks
Jacopo
