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S Q L S e r v e r S S IS In te r v ie w q u e s t io n s : - C a n yo u e x p la in R O L A P , M O L A P
a n d H O L A P ?

Taken from my book SQL Server interview questions http://www.flipkart.com/sql-server-interview-

questions-8183331033/p/itmdyuqz2a6tzhjw?pid=9788183331036&ref=18a53f02-8ad3-4a9a-b79
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Let first quickly run through full forms.

ROLAP stands for Relational Online Analytical Processing, MOLAP stands for Multidimensional Onlin
Analytical Processing and HOLAP stands for Hybrid Online Analytical Processing.

When we talk about BI it has two kinds of data, one is the actual data and other is the aggregated da
For instance you can see in the below table we have customer name, quantity, per price and total
amount. In this case the total amount column is a derived or aggregated data while all the other fiel
are actual data (detail data).

Customer name Quantity Per price Total amount

Shiv 10 100 1000
Raju 5 10 50

ROLAP, MOLAP and HOLAP define storage structure for Business intelligence. It defines how the act
(detail) data and aggregated data are stored.

ROLAP stores data and aggregated data in relational format. So in this case query performance is lo
and also latency is low. Low latency means you get aggregated/calculated data instantly.

MOLAP stores data in cubes i.e. multi-dimensional format. It uses facts, measures and dimension ta
structure to form a cube (read the previous question for cubes). Multi-dimensional database design
format is optimized for better query performance. So the performance is much better as compared
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format is optimized for better query performance. So the performance is much better as compared
ROLAP but the latency is high.

The latency is high in MOLAP because it needs to fetch data from relational database (operational d

do calculations / aggregations / and convert the relational structure data to cube structure data.

HOLAP is a hybrid approach. It’s a combination of MOLAP and ROLAP. HOLAP stores detail data in t
relational database i.e. (ROLAP) and the aggregated data is stored in to MOLAP (cubes).

Due to this approach query is faster than ROLAP but not as fast as MOLAP. Latency is less than MOL
but higher than ROLAP.

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Below is comparison summary table.

Storage structure Query performance Latency

ROLAP Relational Low Low
MOLAP Cubes High High
HOLAP Relational + Cubes Medium Low

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