OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing)

ABSTRACT
OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) is an important notion in data analysis. recently, more and more graph or networked data sources come into being. There exists a similar need to deploy graph analysis from different perspectives and with multiple granularities. However, traditional OLAP technology cannot handle such demands because it does not consider the links among individual data tuples. we see a multi-dimensional data model and multi-level view over graphs. In this, we first represent a comprehensive overview of data warehouse and OLAP. We describe back-end tools those extract data from different (and possibly herogeneus) databases, transform extracted data, and load transformed data in data warehouse. We also explain about front-end tools use for reporting, querying and analysing data. After that, we describe algorithms are represented for efficient query processing in data warehouses and specify advantages and drabacks of each algorithm. We have pointed out applicability of personalization to OLAP schema elements in these approaches. The comparative analysis has been made in order to highlight a certain personalization approach. A new method has been proposed, which provides exhaustive description of interaction between user and data warehouse, according to which a set of user-describing profiles (user, preference, temporal, spatial, preferential and recommendational) has been developed. Methods of profile data gathering and processing are described in this paper.

Keywords: Data Cube ,Data warehouse, Decision support systems, Multidimensional Data model, On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)

Department of Information Technology,MCERC,Nashik