with its
unique In-memory ROLAP technology, can considerably improve the performance and scalability of departmental BI
applications while still solving the toughest business queries.
All reports used for this study are based on queries from the TPC-H benchmark, a publicly available decision support
benchmark that mimics realistic business questions.
The tests results show:
In-memory ROLAP delivers up to 10x higher query performance than database execution.
The average response time improvement is most evident at higher user load.
In-memory ROLAP provides higher performance improvements as databases grow in size and scope.
For a 20 GB TPC-H warehouse, queries running against In-memory ROLAP cubes performed up to 36x
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faster
than those running directly against the relational database.
In-memory ROLAP supports the most complex queries to answer critical business questions with unparalleled
performance.
MicroStrategy 9 with In-memory ROLAP provides a solid platform ideal to deploy fast, scalable departmental
BI applications, setting the foundation for longer-term BI initiatives.
II. Introduction
Increasingly, individual departments are taking a hands-on approach to BI, sparking proliferation of single purpose
departmental BI applications. This has created an enormous market opportunity for new and existing vendors
that focus on quick but narrow solutions. Unfortunately, many BI tools are fairly limited in their ability to generate
queries that solve complex but fairly common business questions. Moreover, many of these quick solutions do
not scale properly to meet the growing needs of individual departments, setting the stage for failure.
Thanks to its exceptional scalability, analytical depth, and fully integrated architecture, MicroStrategy has long
been recognized as the leading platform to deploy enterprise-wide BI applications. Today, MicroStrategy 9
brings all the technology that supports the most sophisticated enterprise-wide deployments, to workgroup and
departmental applications.
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9
, MicroStrategy Desktop
,
MicroStrategy Ofce
, MicroStrategy Mobile