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Every now and then we see a request for the OLAP Council benchmark, last updated in 1998; since nobody else seems to have all the materials in one place, we have decided to put them here as a service.

• The specification can be downloaded here.
• The data generation program is here.

While it may be somewhat dated now, this is still the only such benchmark there has been. Our friends Erik Thomson and George Spofford of DSS Labs produced it for the OLAP Council, which was Read the rest of this entry »

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Let me start this post by saying that Vector Space has no involvement or business interest in DQS, a startup with a product in beta. But when we heard about it from a former colleague, we thought it was worth a deeper look. Perhaps you’ll find it interesting too.

DQS proposes a new way of bringing together the information resources of large enterprises.

To understand why we’re interested in DQS, we must peek at the dark side of IT. Consider the following common scenario:

Our consultants go to a meeting with a major client.

> “I need to analyze corporate operations,” says the customer. “Sales, cost of sales, profitability by channel, that sort of thing, month by month. Read the rest of this entry »

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