{"id":170,"date":"2006-05-09T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T21:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/mark-rittman-on-oracle-bi-suite-ee\/"},"modified":"2006-05-09T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T21:16:55","slug":"mark-rittman-on-oracle-bi-suite-ee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/mark-rittman-on-oracle-bi-suite-ee\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Rittman on Oracle BI Suite EE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Rittman has worked up an excellent article on the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rittman.net\/archives\/2006\/05\/an_guide_to_oraclebi_suite_ent.html\">Oracle BI Landscape<\/a>.  He basically covers the whole range of products and technologies and how they&#8217;re being repackaged and rebranded into a new product set.  Great read.<br \/>\nI thought the following was of interest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><font><font><font face=\"Arial\"><font size=\"2\">The Analytic Server is effectively a ROLAP (Relational OLAP)  engine, that connects to data sources but does not have any local storage in the  traditional, database sense, although it does have a cache which holds copies of  data previously retrieved, so that subsequent requests for the same data are  returned faster.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What struck me about this statement is that from a technology perspective this is nearly identical to <a href=\"http:\/\/mondrian.sourceforge.net\">Mondrian<\/a>&#8216;s (Open Source OLAP engine) architecture.  While proprietary vendors (Oracle included) had been touting the benefits of a true MOLAP solution instead of <em>just<\/em> ROLAP.  However, with the processing headed to mid tier servers (instead of OLAP crunching happening on a Pentium I desktop) one can leverage the mid tier for caching, and analytical processing (MOLAP-esque stuff).  In other words, you can get MOST of the benefits of MOLAP with a well designed and performant ROLAP server proactively caching\/crunching on your behalf!  Cool stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Rittman has worked up an excellent article on the new Oracle BI Landscape. He basically covers the whole range of products and technologies and how they&#8217;re being repackaged and rebranded into a new product set. Great read. I thought the following was of interest: The Analytic Server is effectively a ROLAP (Relational OLAP) engine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}