Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology Geosciences, mapping day Jean-Paul KASPRZYK, phd student
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 Introduction: GIS and SOLAP GIS : OnLine Transactional Processing (OLTP) –Daily management of spatial data Easy update, integrity and no redundancy of the data –Based on transactional databases Entity association approach Easy access to data SOLAP : Spatial OnLine Analytical Processing (Bédard, 1997) –Decision support (Business intelligence) Archiving temporal dimension –Based on data warehouses Multidimensional approach Easy exploration of the data at different aggregation levels Integration of large amount of heterogeneous data
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 Multidimensional approach Fact: offence Time: year Time: month Time: day Serial Offender address Commune Province Offence Place Commune Province Offence Place Commune Offence Place Snowflake schema of the criminal data
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 SOLAP Architecture ETLData warehouse Data cube (SOLAP server) OLAP SOLAP Source data
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 Data integration : ETL (extract transform load)
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 OLAP interface : drill down Operation drill down
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 OLAP interface : drill through operation drill through
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 OLAP interface: slice operation Slice (time)Slice (serie)
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 OLAP interface: graphic exports
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 SOLAP Interface: spatial drill down (1) MDX request SELECT {[Measures].[offence]} ON COLUMNS, {[offence place].[province].members} ON ROWS FROM [offence]
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 SOLAP interface: spatial drill down (2)
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 SOLAP Interface :
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 Conclusion Advantages of SOLAP –Integration and exploration of large amounts of heterogeneous data –Simple interface –Quick requests –Ideal for decision support Spatial OLAP = new technologies –spatial operations can still be improved Example: buffer operation through the data cube
JP Kasprzyk – Spatial data warehouses and SOLAP: a new GIS technology October 2011 Thank you for listening Any question?