Can OLAP be done in BigTable?

Question

In the past I used to build WebAnalytics using OLAP cubes running on MySQL. Now an OLAP cube the way I used it is simply a large table (ok, it was stored a bit smarter than that

Answer 1

Andrei Dragomir made an interesting talk about how Adobe performs OLAP functionality with M/R and HBase.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U3EnfiKs44

Slides: http://hstack.org/hbasecon-low-latency-olap-with-hbase/