Patent ID: 8577903
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: configuring a computing device to perform query operations associated with a report specification, wherein the query operations include at least one multidimensional operation and at least one relational operation to be applied to a multidimensional data cube having a plurality of dimensions, each dimension including a hierarchy of members; sequencing an application of the query operations with the computing device by requiring that: multidimensional slicing operations to be applied to the multidimensional data cube and first level relational pre-aggregation filtering operations to be applied to the members of the data cube are applied within a first timeframe without allowing other ones of the query operations to be applied to the data cube within the first timeframe; multidimensional rollup operations are applied to the multidimensional data cube within a second timeframe subsequent to the first timeframe; and second level relational post auto aggregation filtering operations are applied to the multidimensional data cube within a third timeframe subsequent to the second timeframe; and outputting a report based on a resultant data set produced by the application of the query operations in accordance with the sequencing.