A Parallel Scalable Infrastructure for OLAP and Data Mining

Decision support systems are important in leveraging information present in data warehouses in businesses like banking, insurance, retail and health-care among many others. The multi-dimensional aspects of a business can be naturally expressed using a multi-dimensional data model. Data analysis and data mining on these warehouses pose new challenges for traditional database systems. OLAP and data mining operations require summary information on these multi-dimensional data sets. Query processing for these applications require different views of data for analysis and effective decision making. Data mining techniques can be applied in conjunction with OLAP for an integrated business solution. As data warehouses grow, parallel processing techniques have been applied to enable the use of larger data sets and reduce the time for analysis, thereby enabling evaluation of many more options for decision making. In this paper we address (1) scalability in multidimensional systems for OLAP and m...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: IDEAS
• Authors: Sanjay Goil, Alok N. Choudhary
• Keywords: Data Mining, Data Sets, Database, IDEAS 1999, Multi-dimensional Data