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- MOLAP (multidimensional online analytical processing) is online analytical processing (OLAP) that indexes directly into a multidimensional database. In general, an OLAP application treats data multidimensionally; the user is able to view different aspects or facets of data aggregates such as sales by time, geography, and product model. If the data is stored in a relational data base, it can be viewed multidimensionally, but only by successively accessing and processing a table for each dimension or aspect of a data aggregate. MOLAP processes data that is already stored in a multidimensonal array in which all possible combinations of data are reflected, each in a cell that can be accessed directly. For this reason, MOLAP is, for most uses, faster and more user-responsive than relational online analytical processing (ROLAP), the main alternative to MOLAP. There is also hybrid OLAP (HOLAP), which combines some features from both ROLAP and MOLAP.

MOLAP is often used as part of a data warehouse application.

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CONTRIBUTORS:	Chris Ruffley
LAST UPDATED:	01 Apr 2005

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More resources from around the web:

-	The Panda Project provides an overview of MOLAP and multidimensional databases.
-	The OLAP Report compares ROLAP and MOLAP.

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