OLAP and Statistical Databases: Similarities and Differences

Summary: Compares OLAP and Statistical DB literatures, mapping terminology and methods for multidimensional modeling, physical organization/access, and privacy, and highlighting transferable results between socio‑economic and transactional analytics. Proposes the Statistical Object as a fundamental object‑oriented DB data type to unify modeling and operations. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1115
Venue: PODS
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 8.0016585e-05
Overall Rank: 2,882 | 80.23%
DOI: 10.1145/263661.263682

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Arie Shoshani (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{shoshani_pods97,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '97},
        title = {{OLAP and Statistical Databases: Similarities and Differences}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/263661.263682},
        doi = {10.1145/263661.263682},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Shoshani, Arie},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,172	OLAP Over Uncertain and Imprecise Data	2005	VLDB	9.0394311e-05
2,305	Querying Aggregate Data	1999	PODS	8.7766218e-05
4,155	On the Content of Materialized Aggregate Views	2000	PODS	6.866935e-05
4,166	A Foundation for Multi-Dimensional Databases	1997	VLDB	6.8583043e-05
7,340	Geo/Environmental and Medical Data Management in the RasDaMan System	1997	VLDB	5.6392804e-05
9,380	Auto-Prep: Holistic Prediction of Data Preparation Steps for Self-Service Business Intelligence	2025	VLDB	5.2755515e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11	Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently	1996	SIGMOD	0.00071822821
249	Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions	1982	VLDB	0.00023275528
324	An Array-Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Multidimensional Aggregates	1997	SIGMOD	0.00021200835
1,136	Bit Transposed Files	1985	VLDB	0.00012027691
3,379	Cubetree: Organization of and Bulk Incremental Updates on the Data Cube	1997	SIGMOD	7.4582502e-05
3,718	A Language and a Physical Organization Technique for Summary Tables	1985	SIGMOD	7.1748002e-05

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