Generating multiple views of a multidimensional cube

摘要

Some embodiments provide a cube viewer for rendering multiple cube views. The cube viewer receives cube data in response to a query to a multidimensional data storage (MDDS) that stores a MDDS cube. The cube viewer generates first and second cube views for first and second subsets of the received cube data. The cube viewer displays the first cube view related to the first subset of cube data. In response to interactions with the first cube view, the cube viewer identifies the second subset of the cube data. The cube viewer displays the previously generated second cube view related to the second subset of cube data.

主权项

1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for execution by at least one processing unit, the program comprising sets of instructions for:
in response to a query, receiving a cube data set that represents a portion of a cube stored in a multi-dimensional data storage (MDDS), wherein the cube data set comprises (i) presentation data that defines a set of dimension entities for an interactive matrix and (ii) cell-value data for a set of cells in the interactive matrix; storing the presentation data in a first data file and the cell-value data in a second different data file, wherein the first and second data files are separate from the MDDS; displaying the interactive matrix based on the data stored in the first and second data files; and in response to an interaction with a particular cell in the interactive matrix, generating a graphical presentation that provides more information about the particular cell and displaying the graphical presentation over the interactive matrix.