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, ...

Before the era of big data, there was the era of business intelligence (BI). It was based on many of the same tenets, but focused more on formal data models and analysis of data at a summarized level.

A multi-dimensional analytical query, or MDA query, is answered as quickly as possible by online analytical processing, or OLAP (/o*l*p/). Business intelligence also includes relational databases, ...

Business users can view centralized data and perform related calculations for analysis and reporting with ease. IT can take advantage of OLAP solutions so that data warehouses and other relational ...

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 a bid to expand its charter beyond the transactional database realm, MariaDB Inc. is extending the capabilities of its open source relational database with online analytic processing (OLAP) ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cambridge Semantics, the leading provider of big data management and enterprise analytics software, today released its 2019 AnzoGraph Benchmark Report that arms organizations ...

The SAS/ACCESS interface to OLE DB provides a facility for accessing OLE DB for OLAP data. You can specify a Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) statement through the SQL Procedure Pass-Through ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 23, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Dataupia Corporation is excited to announce that Subex Limited has beencontinuously running their Oracle-based Revenue Management Solution ...

On Dec. 11, 1998, NASA launched the Mars Climate Orbiter to gather data on the Martian climate. On Sept. 23, 1999, the orbiter was lost due to a data error. One piece ...