: Analysts interact with OLAP data in a predominantly “drill-down” fashion, i.e. gradually descending from a coarsely grained overview towards the desired level of detail. Anal...
Svetlana Mansmann, Florian Mansmann, Marc H. Schol...
Data warehouses and OLAP systems help to interactively analyze huge volume of data. This data, extracted from transactional databases, frequently contains spatial information whic...
Sandro Bimonte, Anne Tchounikine, Maryvonne Miquel
It is well known that transactional and analytical systems each require different database architecture. In general, the database structure of transactional systems is optimized f...
: The read-mostly environment of data warehousing makes it possible to use more complex indexes to speed up queries than in situations where concurrent updatesare present. The curr...
Faceted classification allows one to model applications with complex classification hierarchies using orthogonal dimensions. Recent work has examined the use of faceted classi...