What are cubes in a data warehouse?

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