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: h2b69844556131938
Venue: PODS
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 7.8403303e-05
Overall Rank: 2,932 | 80.29%
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
2,204	OLAP Over Uncertain and Imprecise Data	2005	VLDB	8.8558582e-05
2,289	Querying Aggregate Data	1999	PODS	8.6891266e-05
4,232	On the Content of Materialized Aggregate Views	2000	PODS	6.7145949e-05
4,238	A Foundation for Multi-Dimensional Databases	1997	VLDB	6.7099651e-05
7,480	Geo/Environmental and Medical Data Management in the RasDaMan System	1997	VLDB	5.5135285e-05
7,526	Auto-Prep: Holistic Prediction of Data Preparation Steps for Self-Service Business Intelligence	2025	VLDB	5.5020723e-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	0.00071084324
260	Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions	1982	VLDB	0.00022880477
323	An Array-Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Multidimensional Aggregates	1997	SIGMOD	0.0002100085
1,151	Bit Transposed Files	1985	VLDB	0.00011808563
3,442	Cubetree: Organization of and Bulk Incremental Updates on the Data Cube	1997	SIGMOD	7.2979501e-05
3,793	A Language and a Physical Organization Technique for Summary Tables	1985	SIGMOD	7.0176249e-05

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