Differentiated multiple aggregations in multidimensional databases

  • Authors:
  • Ali Hassan;Franck Ravat;Olivier Teste;Ronan Tournier;Gilles Zurfluh

  • Affiliations:
  • IRIT (UMR 5505), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Toulouse Cedex 9, France;IRIT (UMR 5505), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Toulouse Cedex 9, France;IRIT (UMR 5505), Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex 9, France;IRIT (UMR 5505), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Toulouse Cedex 9, France;IRIT (UMR 5505), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

  • Venue:
  • DaWaK'12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Many models have been proposed for multidimensional data warehouse modeling and most consider a same function to determine how measure values are aggregated according to different data detail levels. We provide a conceptual model that supports (1) multiple aggregations, associating to the same measure a different aggregation function according to analysis axes, and (2) differentiated aggregation, allowing specific aggregations at each detail level. Our model is based on a graphical formalism that allows controlling the validity of aggregation functions (distributive, algebraic or holistic). We also show how conceptual modeling can be used, in an R-OLAP environment, for building lattices of pre-computed aggregates.