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

My answer relates to HBase, but applies equally to BigTable.

Urban Airship open-sourced datacube, which I think is close to what you want. See their presentation here.

Adobe also has a couple of presentations (here and here) on how they do "low-latency OLAP" with HBase.