64 DB2 Cube Views: A Primer
3.1 What are the data schemas that can be modeled?
Multidimensional databases have gained widespread acceptance in the market
for supporting OLAP applications. The DB2 Cube Views model provides
semantic foundation to multidimensional databases and extend their current
functionality. This is a strong, flexible and complete model that is capable of
modeling a wide range of schemas. Please refer to Ralph Kimball’s definitions of
dimensional schemas in
The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to
Dimensional Modeling (Second Edition)
by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross, April
2002, ISBN 0471-200247.
OLAP tools and applications that interface with DB2 have each a different view of
OLAP. It ranges from well-defined (ri ...