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OLAP Cubes have been disrupted by Column Stores. Unless you are interested in the history of Data Warehouses, the technology can safely be ignored.
by sradman 5y ago
OLAP Cubes have been disrupted by Column Stores. Unless you are interested in the history of Data Warehouses, the technology can safely be ignored.
- gfody 5y agoolap cubes are the main use case for column stores
- thingsilearned 5y ago100% here. We need to drop old terms and methods that are now obsolete.
- marcos100 5y agoSo that we can now sell old things as exciting new technologies.
- HighlandSpring 5y agoThey're different things entirely. Think of OLAP cubes as more of a model, a set of language (measures, dimensions) for expressing all kinds of aggregation but not necessarily prescribing the how. Column store is the new how so you can still have OLAP queries against it.