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Essbase is a multidimensional database management system (MDBMS). The platform provides tools to build data analytic applications.

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Encyclopedic overview

15 sections
Contents
  • History and motivation
  • Sparsity
  • Aggregation
  • Block storage (Essbase Analytics)
  • Calculation engine
  • Aggregate storage (Enterprise Analytics)
  • Calculation engine
  • User interface
  • Administrative interface
  • Cloud offerings
  • Competitors
  • Export and/or product migration of Essbase
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Essbase is a multidimensional database management system (MDBMS). The platform provides tools to build data analytic applications.

Arbor Software developed Essbase first releasing it in 1992. Arbor merged with Hyperion Software in 1998. Oracle Corporation acquired Hyperion Solutions Corporation in 2007. Until late 2005 IBM also marketed an OEM version of Essbase as DB2 OLAP Server.

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