Monthly Archives: July 2011
Streaming OLAP – Handling Data in Motion
As traditional OLAP systems are usually designed to analyze large databases of historic data, they lack the ability to process the most current events as they are introduced into the system. Streaming OLAP provides the ability to continuously monitor new … Continue reading
RTOLAP – Real Time OLAP Explained
Real time OLAP, or RTOLAP, is the capability to quickly retrieve, aggregate, analyze and present multi-dimensional data for cubes whenever there are changes to the data in the relational data source, without having to run heavy batch processing on the … Continue reading
OLAP and OLTP Hybrid Systems – Fact or Fiction?
Classic OLAP and OLTP systems are considered to be opposites – OLTP systems process simple, ongoing data such as sales, job orders, stock fluctuations, etc., and need to deal with it in real-time; OLTP is about processing masses of data … Continue reading
