OLAP or online analytical processing is an approach to answering multi-dimensional analytical queries swiftly. It allows users to perform complex calculations and multi dimensional analysis of business data. Therefore OLAP is part of the broader category of business intelligence, which also encompasses relational database, report writing and data mining.

Exasol is a leading analytic database management software company. Eexasolution, runs on a cluster of standard computer hardware servers. It stores data in a column-oriented way, using proprietary in-memory compression. The relational database management system of Exasol helps companies to increase their efficiency and speed of analytic workloads.