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Mart (market)

A trading center or market, as in supermarket or Walmart.

First in use: ancient / pre-modern
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Data mart

A subject-focused subset of a data warehouse built for one team or function.

First in use: the 1990s

Mart / Mart (market) / Data mart

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Walmart vs. departmental data stores.

Which meaning of Mart is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Mart (market) came first (ancient / pre-modern). Data mart arrived in the 1990s. The data below shows which one owns the word now.

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Mart (market)

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