To put your question in context, what other storage would you suggest? Keep in mind that the cubes are produced by a highly parallel program that runs on hadoop.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 26, 2015, at 21:35, Sarnath <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I am just curious to know why HBASE has been chosen as the underlying Cube > storage. > My reasoning is that - even if the data runs in terabytes, the aggregations > and cubes are still not going to take the same amount of storage. > (or) Is it because Cube data can grow exponentially (2^N) with increasing > dimensions? Is that the reason? > > Sorry for sounding naïve. > Any clarifications will help me understand this better. > > Best, > Sarnath
