oh, sure - both model multi-dimensional situations, just not necessarily with spatio-temporal semantics (see the famous data warehouse example of a sales cube:

oh, sure - both model multi-dimensional situations, just not necessarily with spatio-temporal semantics (see the famous data warehouse example of a sales cube: time x products x subsidiaries). Operations on abstract level are relatively similar - a rollup from days to weeks is pretty similar to scaling an image by 7. Then, there are various differences in detail, depending on the domain.