olap4j is an open Java API for OLAP. It is used by many open source BI projects including Saiku, Pentaho, Palo, Mondrian and JPivot.
Questions tagged [olap4j]
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Mondrian: Cannot seem to get Aggregation Tables to be used
I have been struggling to get aggregation tables to work. Here is what my fact table looks like:
employment_date_id
dimension1_id
dimension2_id
dimension3_id
dimension4
dimension5
measure1
measure2
measure3
I'm collapsing the employment_date_id…

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Why use ROLAP instead of plain MySQL?
Are there any performance advantages in using a ROLAP server such as Mondrian on top of a MySQL database, as opposed to simply querying the MySQL database?
I am asking this in the context in which most of my queries will be relatively simple (such…

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Does spring-boot support any dynamic OLAP report generation tool?
I need to add OLAP report support into my existing spring boot web application. I have come across multiple BI tools like BIRT, JasperServer Report and Saiku but for all of them, I have to use an already created cube. In case, there is any…

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Presentation of data from Mondrian OLAP engine + Olap4j
I'm doing a little bit of planning of an application that uses Mondrian OLAP engine with Olap4j and should present/display data to user. I understand all the back-end stuff, but I'm not sure how should I display the data in the view layer.
For…

lisak
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Olap4j mdx query is taking too long to execute on SSAS cube
While executing MDX query from olap4j through http services(msmpupm.dll) its taking too long. As a test the following query on predefined cube(adventureworksdb) is taking 3 seconds on ssas and 180 seconds from olap4j.
SELECT NON EMPTY {…

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Microsoft SSAS OLAP Connection from Java Code
I am new to the concept of OLAP DB.
Please excuse me if I missed out something in the Connection String.
I am trying to connect to connect to Microsoft Analysis Server(which is in different Domain) from my System.
While Connecting I am getting below…

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exception while trying to connect to SSAS cube?
when i try to connect the SSAS cube using the olap4j drivers,this exception just came out,and search the internet ,just cannot get any information!
the exception output just as below:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:…

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Pentaho Mondian : Mondrian Schema xml Vs Pentaho metadata domain xmi Vs CDA cda files
I have been exploring the Pentaho ecosystem. Please forgive any naive things in the question.
There are a couple of things about these config files ( containing domains names and its mappings etc ) that I can't seem to put my finger on.
So, if you…

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'No suitable driver' exception implementing Olap4J XMLA Server
I'm trying to implement olap4j-xmlaserver to access Mondrian via HTTP/XMLA. I compiled the project, created a war file (including a web.xml file) and deployed it in Tomcat 7. Problem is that I'm getting an exception when the pivot client application…

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Is OLAP4J dead and is there a replacement equivalent?
Is OLAP4J (Java library for connecting to XMLA services) dead? The things that suggest it is are:
The web site hasn't been updated since 2013.
The last message on the dev mailling list was in May 2016.
The last available release build was 1.2.0, in…

jon hanson
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Issue with Maven dependencies on a 32bit and 64 bits platform
I have an issue with my pom.xml file. I have a project made with Spring MVC and uses this dependency:
net.sf.jasperreports
jasperreports
6.3.0
The…

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Pentaho reports with OLAP data source and SAP BW - poor performance
I have few BEx queries (OLAP cubes for third-party client) and .prpt reports in Pentaho that uses these BEx via OLAP data source (OLAP4J, MDX). When I execute these BEx in SAP BW or even directly as SOAP service (XML/A execute command via SoapUI),…

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olap4j. MDX (XMLA) query takes too long
I have simple MDX query. It takes less than 1 second to execute it:
SELECT
NON EMPTY { } ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY
{[Z_OP].[LEVEL01].MEMBERS *
[Z_NV].[LEVEL01].MEMBERS *
[Z_DT].[LEVEL01].MEMBERS }
ON ROWS
FROM
[Z_TEST/Z_TEST_REQ]
However…

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Pentaho BI data source for custom OLAP (XML/A) provider
I need to be able to create simple ad-hoc reports on Pentaho BI using plugins like Pivot4j or Saiku. My data provider is SAP with XML/A interface. So the question is how could I create an OLAP data source that based on XMLA protocol? Or it is…

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Unable to connect to SSAS using olap4j on Linux
I wish to connect to SSAS 2012 using Java and have tried olap4j driver for the same.
I am working on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04) platform.
I have read that Olap4j works for Windows but will it work on Linux ?
I have written some Java code which gives…

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