Cube - Multi-dimensional query (OLAP query)

An multi-dimensional query is a query that runs against a multi-dimensional structure (ie cube).

It is also known as:

• an OLAP query.
• a business query

multi-dimensional query are analytics query and therefore are also:

• ad-hoc query (used for explanatory analytics)
• reporting query

See Multi Dimensional Data - MDX

The queries exhibit the following characteristics:

• They have a high degree of complexity;
• They use a variety of access
• They are of an ad hoc nature
• They examine a large percentage of the available data;
• They contain query parameters that change across query executions.