The design thinking behind of this is there could be more cubes to serve different SQLs with same star schema, and only expose Table and SQL to user is more easy way for people to onboard and learn and integrated with any SQL based tools.
And, how many usage of MDX compare to SQL? And how many people know SQL but not MDX:-) Thanks. 发自我的 iPhone > 在 2015年5月19日，01:32，Sarnath <[email protected]> 写道： > > Hi, > > I am very new to Kylin. > > From the architecture of Kylin - what I understand is that - Kylin does all > the aggregations but does not expose the result as multi-dimensional > database. Instead, it exposes the underlying as a normal relational > database - but optimizes queries by serving from the aggregations wherever > possible.... > > Is there a reason why Kylin chose not to go with MDX or ODBO...? Did it > choose ODBC only because of Tableau? > > Appreciate any clarity on this, > Thanks, > Best, > Sarnath
