Remove Measurement Remove OLAP Remove Online Analytical Processing
article thumbnail

Simplify Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) queries in Amazon Redshift using new SQL constructs such as ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS

AWS Big Data

Solution overview Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is an effective tool for today’s data and business analysts. An analyst can use OLAP aggregations to analyze buying patterns by grouping customers by demographic, geographic, and psychographic data, and then summarizing the data to look for trends.

article thumbnail

How to Build a Performant Data Warehouse in Redshift

Sisense

OLTP vs OLAP. First, we’ll dive into the two types of databases: OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) and OLTP (Online Transaction Processing). An OLAP database is best for situations where you read from the database more often than you write to it. Redshift is a type of OLAP database.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Future of AI in the Enterprise

Jet Global

The optimized data warehouse isn’t simply a number of relational databases cobbled together, however—it’s built on modern data storage structures such as the Online Analytical Processing (or OLAP) cubes.

article thumbnail

Master Your Power BI Environment with Tabular Models

Jet Global

Most organizations are looking for sophisticated reporting and analytics, but they have little appetite for managing the highly complicated infrastructure that goes with it. OLAP Cubes vs. Tabular Models. Let’s begin with an overview of how data analytics works for most business applications. The first is an OLAP model.

article thumbnail

How Aura from Unity revolutionized their big data pipeline with Amazon Redshift Serverless

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift is a recommended service for online analytical processing (OLAP) workloads such as cloud data warehouses, data marts, and other analytical data stores. Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in Redshift Processing Units (RPUs).

article thumbnail

How gaming companies can use Amazon Redshift Serverless to build scalable analytical applications faster and easier

AWS Big Data

This post provides guidance on how to build scalable analytical solutions for gaming industry use cases using Amazon Redshift Serverless. This service is the core of this reference architecture on AWS and can address most analytical needs out of the box. Data subscription and access is fully managed with this service.

article thumbnail

Build an Amazon Redshift data warehouse using an Amazon DynamoDB single-table design

AWS Big Data

Nonetheless, many of the same customers using DynamoDB would also like to be able to perform aggregations and ad hoc queries against their data to measure important KPIs that are pertinent to their business. Deriving business insights by identifying year-on-year sales growth is an example of an online analytical processing (OLAP) query.