SUMMARY
To see a white paper that compares the features that Microsoft OLAP Services and Oracle Express offer for an OLAP system that is based on a relational data warehouse, please visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Because each product offers a number of features, Microsoft limited the scope of comparison and created a case study to implement in both products to perform concrete comparisons of how each product addressed a particular task.
Included in this document:
- Introduction
- Design Overview
- Dimensions
- Variables and Cubes
- Physical Partitioning
- Bulk Loading and Aggregation
- Additional Calculations
- Queries
- Description of Hardware and Software Used