Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order"We model data according to rigorous frameworks like Kimball or Inmon because we must regularly construct OLAP cubes for our analyses." Actually, no. We model our data this way so it can be used for business decisions. It doesn't take long for any entity of any scale to discover that the logging and eventing done for heartbeat status, debugging, and scaling is just different than what you need to make a variety of business decisions. You can solve with more…
I used to admin OLAP infrastructure for a large Fortune 100. I think the article makes a lot of great points, but ultimately there are many paths to the same result. I'm not entirely sure what that group is up to these days but using column stores is a big part of it I'm sure, but I think ultimately deciding between precalculated vs. dynamically calculated pivots is the big choice. Whatever system you have can do that, but the real…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 406
- Total comments
- 144
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-30 | The Rise and Fall of the OLAP CubeFirst breakout | shadowsun7 | 194 | 53 |
| 2021-07-05 | The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube (2020)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | smartmic | 211 | 91 |
| 2025-12-30 | The rise and fall of the OLAP cube | fanf2 | 1 | 0 |