"Jeff Wise" <JEFF.WISE (AT) MCI (DOT) COM> wrote
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Does anyone have any experience with or knowledge about this product?
It claims to be a revolutionary OLAP product which does not conform to
normal OLAP categories (MOLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP). |
That's because it's not an OLAP at all. It's what I call a
Column-Oriented Product, or COP, but there isn't a widely accepted term
for this category. Others call them fast counting tools or exploratory
warehouses or CBAT. But, whatever you call them, they are quite
different to OLAP, being focused on analysis of details, not aggregates.
COPs have been around since the 1960s, but few are well known. Others
include Sybase IQ, Sand, Alterian, SmartFOCUS, etc.