Does Kylin offer nesting dimensions or hierarchies?

> Kylin does not support Snowflake schema, It is currently restricted to
>Star.

Generally speaking, we always transform snowflake schema to star schema by
creating some view.

2016-01-16 3:31 GMT+08:00 Adunuthula, Seshu <[email protected]>:

> Does Kylin provide slicing and dicing capabilities on cubes?
>
> > Not sure what you mean, We can issue SQL on the cubes.
>
> Does Kylin offer nesting dimensions or hierarchies?
>
> > Kylin does not support Snowflake schema, It is currently restricted to
> >Star.
>
> Other than SQL, can users use Kylin cube with drag and drop functionality
> (something similar to the OLAP cubes in the traditional world)?
> > No it is not possible. It has to be a tool built on Kylin.
>
>
>
> Is MDX (Multi-dimensional functions) supported in Kylin? (This is a
> standard
> functionality of exiting OLAP tools).
> > MDX was wrapper was built but was not built by the Kylin team. Not sure
> >of how mature the capability is or if it works out of the box.
>
>
> Does Kylin provide role based security (who sees what data) and object
> level
> security (who sees which dimensions)
> > It provides basic security, you can grant permissions at the cube level,
> >but cannot do row level or column level security.
>
> Can existing HBase table be directly leveraged by Kylin for cubes and
> suppose the HBase table was not created from any Hive Star schema.
> > No, We define the table row format, so you cannot use existing tables.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 1/15/16, 7:56 AM, "KylinPOC" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Hi Kylin Team,
> >
> >I have a few questions around capabilities of Kylin.
> >
> >Does Kylin provide slicing and dicing capabilities on cubes?
> >
> >Does Kylin offer nesting dimensions or hierarchies?
> >
> >Other than SQL, can users use Kylin cube with drag and drop functionality
> >(something similar to the OLAP cubes in the traditional world)?
> >
> >Is MDX (Multi-dimensional functions) supported in Kylin? (This is a
> >standard
> >functionality of exiting OLAP tools).
> >
> >Does Kylin provide role based security (who sees what data) and object
> >level
> >security (who sees which dimensions)
> >
> >Can existing HBase table be directly leveraged by Kylin for cubes and
> >suppose the HBase table was not created from any Hive Star schema.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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