Dwarf cube architecture for reducing storage sizes of multidimensional data

Abstract

The invention relates to data warehouses and the ability to create and maintain data cubes of multi-dimensional data. More specifically, the invention pertains to data cube architectures that permit significant reduction of storage, exhibit very efficient retrieval and provide a very efficient incremental update of the data cubes.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Description

PTO

Inventor(s)

Nicholas Roussopoulos, John Sismanis, Antonios Deligiannakis

Date Issued

11/07/2006

Patent No.

7,133,876