What is the difference between OLTP and OLAP systems?

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OLTP systems handle day-to-day transactional operations like order entry or payments.
They focus on fast inserts, updates, and deletes with high data accuracy.
For example, our sales application stored real-time orders in an OLTP database.
OLAP systems are used for analysis and reporting on historical data.
They support complex queries and aggregations across large datasets.
We used an OLAP warehouse to analyze monthly sales trends.
OLTP supports business operations, while OLAP supports decision making.
Both systems serve different but complementary business needs.

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