What is OLAP What is the role of the OLAP cube?

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1. What is OLAP query?
2. How OLAP is used in business?
3. Is HBase OLAP or OLTP?
4. Why do we use OLAP?
5. What is an OLAP database?
6. What is the OLAP in data warehouse?
7. Is Hadoop a OLAP?
8. What is OLAP in SQL?
9. What is difference between OLTP and data warehouse?
10. What is use of OLAP?

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1. #reporting
2. #online
3. #cubes
4. #storing
5. #database
6. #multidimensional
7. #processing
8. #method
9. #applications
10. #purposes
11. #categorized
12. #dimensions
13. #generally
14. #optimized
15. #warehouse
16. #measures
17. #analytical