Mastering Qlik Sense
by Ralf Becher, Karl Pover, Jason Michaelides, Dilyana Ivanova, David Alcobero, Martin Mahler, Juan Ignacio Vitantonio
Creating HyperCubes
The in-memory associative Qlik Engine is speedy and powerful when it comes to aggregating and calculating data on the fly. As such, it sometimes makes sense to leverage the Qlik Engine to calculate a dataset which you then process for a purpose other than visualizations. Alternatively, you could also build amazing, highly complex visualizations and utilize multiple HyperCubes to calculate the necessary data for them. HyperCubes are created using the qlik.app.createCube(qHyperCubeDef, callback) method. It's important to correctly define the qHyperCubeDef object before creating the cube, something which is explained in detail in Chapter 13, Creating Extensions in Qlik Sense.
The following example will create a HyperCube ...
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