For the people who need OLAP analysis, the relevant expense range is seldom that much of a consideration. I'm looking at storage systems right now that costs $8

For the people who need OLAP analysis, the relevant expense range is seldom that much of a consideration. I'm looking at storage systems right now that costs $800,000. It's considered mid-range and is merely the starter system. Note that OLAP is, in many regards, NoSQL. It is really the most successful variant of NoSQL. However I'm very curious what sort of analytics people are doing with NoSQL. I have seen people essentially generating reports to MongoDB, for instance, but I have never seen anything remotely approaching flexible analytics on such a system.