A database used for analytical processing in contrast to daily transaction processing. Rather than the row and column 2D format used by relational databases, OLAP databases store data in a 3D format, ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...

Before the era of big data, there was the era of business intelligence (BI). It was based on many of the same tenets, but focused more on formal data models and analysis of data at a summarized level.

In the fog of the Big Data era, OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing) gets little mention from the press or the industry analysts. The reality is, OLAP is quite vital today for a simple reason: most ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ClickHouse, Inc., creators of the online analytical processing (OLAP) database management system, announced today that it has raised $250 million in Series B funding at ...

IBM is rolling out a tool that it said combines online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining capabilities in one application, giving users the ability to do in-depth analyses not before ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio’s latest report on the global in-memory OLAP database market provides an analysis on the most important trends expected to impact the market outlook from 2016-2020.

Aerospike on Tuesday took the covers off its new Graph database that can support both Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) workloads. The new database, dubbed ...

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On Dec. 11, 1998, NASA launched the Mars Climate Orbiter to gather data on the Martian climate. On Sept. 23, 1999, the orbiter was lost due to a data error. One piece ...