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by sdairs 304 days ago
Without doubt, the majority of the market for OLAP today is still internal warehousing & BI. But the market for using OLAP behind features inside user-facing B2C/B2B apps has been kicking off for quite a few years now. Big consumer apps like Stripe, Uber, Shopify...pretty much every B2B SaaS with a usage/metrics dashboard...they're usually punting queries off to an OLAP to populate those stats/charts. That's where something like this might come in handy, I can't imagine it being using for general internal reporting (in the current form, anyway.)