BI Glossary - Online analytical processing (OLAP)

Business Intelligence BI Glossary - Online analytical processing (OLAP)

Online analytical processing. Popular term coined by E.F. Codd in 1993 to describe the multidimensional analysis of data. The term OLAP itself is somewhat confusing and was popularized simply to highlight the difference between databases designed for analysis (OLAP) and databases designed for updates and transaction processing (OLTP).

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