Multidimensional approaches and normalized approaches establish different designs and have differing goals. However, understanding the nature of one’s data is always important. Therefore, it is always ...
In fact, an entirely new data model, called a "multidimensional" database -- which stores information in a way that simplifies access from many different dimensions or indexes -- is gaining popularity ...
Multidimensional database technology has matured in the data analysis industry since the 1960s. [1] A multidimensional database is a variation of the relational model that uses multidimensional ...
Excerpt from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed by Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger, Edward Melomed Chapter 1: Introduction to OLAP and Its Role in Business Intelligence Excerpt from ...
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — The newest version of a multidimensional database from InterSystems has several features aimed at adapting the product for high-performance Internet applications. Caché 4.0 gets ...
Unlike the name implies, the cube represents data across some measure of interest. Even if it is called a “cube”, it can have 2 dimensions, 3 dimensions, or even higher dimensions. With an OLAP cube, ...
Unlike the name implies, the cube represents data across some measure of interest. Even if it is called a “cube”, it can have 2 dimensions, 3 dimensions, or even higher dimensions. With an OLAP cube, ...
InterSystems Corp., a provider of database systems, will make its CACHE database available for Mac OS X early next year. Already used by developers building transaction processing applications on ...