Can OLAP CUBE be done in HBase?

Question

Is there any way to create CUBE DIMENSIONS in HBase or OLAP with it? I want to create CUBE DIMENSIONS kind of application with my HBASE or HIVE and connect that with SSAS for re

Answer 1

It is quite possible. In fact several attempts have been made in recent past towards the same. See HBase-Lattice and urbanairship datacube, for example.

You might also find this presentation helpful, which talks about Low Latency “OLAP” with HBase.

HTH

Answer 2

You can look at Kylin from eBay. It enables you to build cubes from hive and saves the resulting data to hbase