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OLAP cubes

  • Status: accepted
  • Deciders: Equip de Dades
  • Date: 2022-10-06

Technical Story:

OLAP cubes?

Context and Problem Statement

Decision Drivers

  • [driver 1, e.g., a force, facing concern, …]
  • [driver 2, e.g., a force, facing concern, …]

Considered Options

  1. OLAP i algun vendor o nosé
  2. datasets basats en dbt models via macros on-demand

Decision Outcome

2. datasets basats en dbt models

A revisar en el futur

Positive Consequences

  • [e.g., improvement of quality attribute satisfaction, follow-up decisions required, …]

Negative Consequences

  • [e.g., compromising quality attribute, follow-up decisions required, …]

Pros and Cons of the Options

OLAP cube

[example | description | pointer to more information | …]

  • Good, because [argument a]
  • Good, because [argument b]
  • Bad, because [argument c]

datasets

Molta gent a dbt argumenta en contra de OLAP cubes i a favor de datasets

  • modern datawarehouses no tenen limitacions d'espai, la limitació és el dev-time
  • Necessita pre-calcular totes les combinacions de dimensions en la granularitat mínima 1
  • Molt costós de dissenyar (requereix stars de kimball) 2
  • [Link type] [Link to ADR]