BigCube:A Metamodel for Managing Multidimensional Data

New emerging scientific applications in geosciences, sensor and spatio-temporal domains require adaptive analysis frameworks that can handle large datasets with multiple dimensions. However, existing conceptual design strategies for multidimensional data using the data warehousing framework are not suitable for users, since they involve complex extensions of traditional database design frameworks like E/R and UML diagrams, or the relational star and snowflake schema. There is a lack of a generalized model that provides a user-centric design approach to let analysts abstractly design and query multidimensional data.