Can OLAP CUBE be done in HBase?

Question

Is there any way to create CUBE DIMENSIONS in HBase or OLAP with it? I want to create CUBE DIMENSIONS kind of application with my HBASE or HIVE and connect that with SSAS for reporting purpose, is that possible? If soo please guide me with some links and codes.

I have tried to create cube views in hive and i want to know whether that is possible with HBase.

Thanks...

Answer 1

It is quite possible. In fact several attempts have been made in recent past towards the same. See HBase-Lattice and urbanairship datacube, for example.

You might also find this presentation helpful, which talks about Low Latency “OLAP” with HBase.

HTH

Answer 2

You can look at Kylin from eBay. It enables you to build cubes from hive and saves the resulting data to hbase