DSO IS DATA STORE OBJECTS. IT CONTAINS DETAILED TRANSACTION RECORDS.

DSO
OVERWRITES DATA. DSO SUPPORTS DELTA (INCREMENTAL LOAD). CUBE HAS NO
DELTA FUNCTIONALITY. THERE ARE 3 TYPES OF DSOS. STANDARD, WRITE
OPTIMIZED, DIRECT UPDATE DSO. DSO WILL HAVE 2 FOLDERS. KEY FIELDS AND
DATA FIELDS. FOR THE SAME KEY VALUE, DATA FIELDS WILL BE OVER WRITTEN. DSO
WILL HAVE ANOTHER 3 TABLES. NEW DATA, ACTIVE DATA, CHANGE LOG. QUERY
WILL ACCESS ACTIVE DATA TABLE.
MULTICUBES: MULTIPROVIDER:

UNION JOIN IS A JOIN BETWEEN 2 CUBES. HOWEVER, NO COMMON DATA IN

COLUMNS ARE REQUIRED. IF 100 ROWS ARE IN EACH OF 3 CUBES, THERE WILL BE
300 ROWS IN THE MULTIPROVIDER. IF AGGREGATION IS ALLOWED, COMMON ROWS
WILL BE AGGREGATED.