[IP5-1] Data cubes

The term data cube originally was used in Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) of business and statistics data. Technically speaking, such a data cube represents a multidimensional array together with metadata describing the semantics of axes, coordinates, and cells. It is an efficient approach to the management and analysis of large datasets.

External resources

• Strobl, P., Baumann, P., Lewis, A., Szantoi, Z., Killough, B., Purss, M., Craglia, M., Nativi, S., Held, A., Dhu, T., 2017. The Six Faces of The Datacube, Proc. Conf. on Big Data from Space (BiDS'17), pp. 28-30.

Learning outcomes

• 2344 - Explain the benefits of structuring images in a data cube

  Explain the benefits of structuring images in a data cube

Self assessment

Outgoing relations

• [IP5-1] Data cubes subclassof [IP5] Infrastructure

Incoming relations

• [PS3-2-3] Data cubes (proposed relation) [IP5-1] Data cubes
• [IP5-1-1] Array databases subclassof [IP5-1] Data cubes
• [IP5-1-2] Open data cube subclassof [IP5-1] Data cubes