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Open Source OLAP Solutions?

Posted by Cliff on from the where-are-they dept.

webmaven asks: "After reading a thread on the local LUG mailing list on databases, I started wondering if there were any Open Source OLAP (On-Line Analytical Proccessing) database solutions out there. There are plenty of RDBMS OLTP (On-Line Transaction Proccessing) solutions, including MySQL, PostGreSQL, Interbase/Firebird, etc., and also plenty of Open Source Object database systems, but I can't seem to locate any Open Source OLAP databases. If there are any out there, I'd like to hear about them, and if there aren't any I'd enjoy any speculation as to why not."

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  1. Open vs. Closed-Source by man_ls · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is open source software always better? It may be in some cases (OpenSSH doesn't have the security flaws that commerical SSH does, MySQL is very powerful, so is PERL), but just because it's free doesn't mean its better. If someone gave you a car for free that you didn't know personally, I'd probably not take it, for fear it would explode under me.

    (Open-Source = Free) != Good software, any more then (microsoft = bad software) automatically.

    Buy an OLAP database engine from a company that sells them, and support people who work for a living.

    JKoebel