Question

A retail company wants to run monthly reports that aggregate several years of sales history across all stores to identify seasonal buying trends. The queries read large volumes of historical data, perform complex aggregations, and are not concerned with recording new individual purchases. Which characteristic best describes this workload?

Accepted Answer

It is an analytical workload optimized for reading and summarizing large historical datasets.

Answer

It is a transactional workload optimized for high volumes of small, frequent insert and update operations.

Answer

It is a caching workload optimized for low-latency key-value lookups.

Answer

It is a streaming workload optimized for processing continuous real-time event feeds.