One of the critical deficiencies of SQL is lack of support for n-dimensional array-based computations which are frequent in OLAP environments.
This paper presents SQL extensions involving array based calculations for complex modeling, and presents optimizations, access structures and execution ...
This paper proposes spreadsheet-like computations in RDBMS through extensions to SQL, leaving the user interface aspects to be handled by OLAP tools. Here is a ...
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One of the critical deficiencies of SQL is the lack of support for array and spreadsheet like calculations which are frequent in OLAP and Business Modeling ...
Oct 12, 2023 · A family of Microsoft relational database management and analysis systems for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions.
Feb 8, 2024 · Relational databases excel in handling structured data and supporting complex SQL queries, making them suitable for OLAP tasks involving ...
May 16, 2022 · An RDBMS would be a spreadsheet and a cube would be a Pivotable. Cube allows you to define dimensions (things you'd need to filter on like Dates ...
Jan 5, 2023 · OLAP databases are for analytics. They're optimized for huge SELECT statements against very wide (massive number of columns) tables.
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Now, spreadsheets are also an application development platform on which many smallscale desktop applications are built. For example, many business data ...
Oct 8, 2023 · The conclusion being they aren't really needed anymore if you rely on a modern cloud OLAP data warehouse. Especially when coupled with a metric semantic layer.