[polskibus]

Does anyone know of data structures better suited to solve the same goal? (ie fast in memory joins with multiple dimensions, star schema OLAP queries, etc.) ?

[ngould]

If you're interested in defining dimensions using tabular data in JS, check out crossfilter.js.

https://github.com/square/crossfilter

[otoburb]

The updated link seems to be https://github.com/crossfilter/crossfilter. Crossfilter (the organization) is now actively maintaining and extending Square's original crossfilter implementation.

[vittore]

Crossfilter is amazing, and demo they have with d3.js is really cool.

[fiatjaf]

https://github.com/irrelon/ForerunnerDB

[badminton1]

Star schema... what is this, the year of our lord 1995?

[ngould]

The star schema is still very useful, even though it wasn't invented in the last six months.

[SmellTheGlove]

Star schema still has its (very prominent) place with many applications. If my information has some natural structure, I'm not going to go out of my way to un-structure it, and star is sometimes the data structure that best suits the data itself.

[badminton1]

Yes sure, but it's really hard to scale. Scale on horizontally, not vertically. Vertical scalability is not true scalability.