# Understanding the Data Warehouse

DevFeed: [Understanding the Data Warehouse](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/understanding-the-data-warehouse-18770.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.tinybird.co/blog/why-data-warehouses>)

Author: Alasdair Brown

Published: 2022-11-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Tinybird](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tinybird.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [series](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/series.md>), [the-data-base](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/the-data-base.md>), [warehouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/warehouse.md>)

## AI overview

This article introduces the origins of data warehouses and explains what they enable. It is presented as the first article in a two-part series.

## Source excerpt

What gave rise to the Data Warehouse? What do they enable? I answer these questions in this first of a two-blog series.