Oracle Corporation
System and method for parallel support of multidimensional slices with a multidimensional database

Abstract:

A system and method is described for use with a multidimensional database computing environment to provide support for parallel calculation of multidimensional slices. Users are able to specify a set of slices and a number of parallel threads to employ. The multidimensional database environment generates tasks that include calculations and/or aggregations, which are able to be executed by the system in parallel. Also described herein are mechanisms of utilizing variables within the calculations performed by respective threads, and combining thread variables after execution.