Can OLAP be done in BigTable?

Question

In the past I used to build WebAnalytics using OLAP cubes running on MySQL. Now an OLAP cube the way I used it is simply a large table (ok, it was stored a bit smarter than that

Answer 1

It's even kind of been done (kind of).

LastFm's aggregation/summary engine: http://github.com/zohmg/zohmg

A google search turned up a google code project "mroll" but it doesn't have anything except contact info (no code, nothing). Still, might want to reach out to that guy and see what's up. http://code.google.com/p/mroll/