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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.

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Build a real-time analytics solution with Apache Pinot on AWS

AWS Big Data

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is crucial in modern data-driven apps, acting as an abstraction layer connecting raw data to users for efficient analysis. OLAP combines data from various data sources and aggregates and groups them as business terms and KPIs.

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Navigating Data Entities, BYOD, and Data Lakes in Microsoft Dynamics

Jet Global

Online analytical processing (OLAP), which enabled users to quickly and easily view data along different dimensions, was coming of age. The challenge with OLAP, however, is that it requires intensive processing power to aggregate data according to various categories or dimensions. Data warehouses have been in widespread use for years.

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

They generally leverage simple statistical and analytical tools, but Power notes that some OLAP systems that allow complex analysis of data may be classified as hybrid DSS systems. These DSS include systems that use accounting and financial models, representational models, and optimization models.

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Unleashing the power of Presto: The Uber case study

IBM Big Data Hub

If the exploratory work needs to move on to testing and production, they can plan appropriately. As a result, they continue to expand their use cases to include ETL, data science , data exploration, online analytical processing (OLAP), data lake analytics and federated queries. This way, the queries run much faster.

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Here’s Why Automation For Data Lakes Could Be Important

Smart Data Collective

There were a handful of problems that bogged the system down and made it extremely difficult for data scientists to replicate their test bed results in a real-world environment. Data lakes were designed to be agile and provide analytics data on the fly while processing incoming data at a remarkable speed. Big Data is, well…big.

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Use the new SQL commands MERGE and QUALIFY to implement and validate change data capture in Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift has added many features to enhance analytical processing like ROLLUP, CUBE and GROUPING SETS , which were demonstrated in the post Simplify Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) queries in Amazon Redshift using new SQL constructs such as ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS.