Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...

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 ...

In the fog of the Big Data era, OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing) gets little mention from the press or the industry analysts. The reality is, OLAP is quite vital today for a simple reason: most ...

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Recent advances in OLAP query recommendations and user interaction are transforming the way data is explored and analysed. Traditional OLAP systems, long reliant on standard roll-up and drill-down ...

A database used for analytical processing in contrast to daily transaction processing. Rather than the row and column 2D format used by relational databases, OLAP databases store data in a 3D format, ...

The same team that created GemFire builds on Spark in a new open source database that can analyze OLTP and OLAP workloads side-by-side The team behind Pivotal’s GemFire in-memory transactional data ...