Cubes modelling patterns

Cubes modeling patterns

r2, December 2012, Cubes v0.10.1 Schema 1
store id code address sales product_id store_id amount product id code name

Model or conguration
"cubes": [ { "name": "sales", "dimensions": ["product", "store"], "joins": [ {"master":"product_id", "detail":"product.id"}, {"master":"store_id", "detail":"store.id"} ] } ], "dimensions": [ { "name": "product", "attributes": ["code", "name"] }, { "name": "store", "attributes": ["code", "address"] } ]

fact table has same name as cube, dimension tables have same names as dimensions

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store ...

sales ... year amount product ...

dimension represented by only one attribute in fact table

"cubes": [ { ... "dimensions": ["product", "store", "year"], ... } ], "dimensions": [ ... { "name": "year" } ]

Python:
dim_store id code address ft_sales product_id store_id amount dim_product id code name

cubes.create_workspace("sql", url=DATABASE_URL, dimension_prefix="dim_", fact_prefix="fact_") slicer.ini:

all dimension tables have prex dim_ and all fact tables have prex ft_

[workspacee] dimension_prefix="dim_" fact_prefix="fact_"

schema: sales_datamart
store id code address sales product_id store_id amount product id code name

Python: cubes.create_workspace("sql", url=DATABASE_URL, schema="sales_datamart") slicer.ini: [workspacee] schema="sales_datamart"

all tables are stored in other than default database schema

dimensions
store id code address

facts
sales product_id store_id amount product id code name

Python: cubes.create_workspace("sql", url=DATABASE_URL, schema="facts", dimension_schema="dimensions", ) slicer.ini: [workspacee] schema="facts" dimensions_schema="dimensions"

all fact tables are stored in one schema, all dimension tables in another

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Schema 6
store ... sales ... sales_year total_amount product ...

Model or conguration
"cubes": [ { "dimensions": [..., "year"], "measures": ["amount"], "mappings": { "year":"sales_year", "amount":"total_amount"] } } ], "dimensions": [ ... { "name": "year" } ]

at dimension is called year, but column is sales_year; measure is reported as amount, column is named total_amount

dim_suppliers ft_sales supplier_id client_id amount id name address dim_clients id name address dim_organisation id name address

clients and suppliers share one table with all organisations and companies

"cubes": [ { "name": "sales" "dimensions": ["supplier", "client"], "measures": ["amount"], "joins": [ { "master":"supplier_id", "detail":"dim_organisation.id", "alias":"dim_supplier" }, { "master":"client_id", "detail":"dim_organisation.id", "alias":"dim_client" } ] } ], "dimensions": [ { "name": "supplier", "attributes": ["id", "name", "address"] } { "name": "client", "attributes": ["id", "name", "address"] } ]

sales product_id ... amount

product id code name category_code category product category

product dimension has two levels: product category and product

"cubes": [ { "dimensions": ["product", ...], "measures": ["amount"], "joins": [ {"master":"product_id", "detail":"product.id"} ] } ], "dimensions": [ { "name": "product", "levels": [ { "name":"category", "attributes": ["category_code", "category"] }, { "name":"product", "attributes": ["code", "name"] } ] } ]

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Schema 9
key label
product id code name price

Model or conguration

"dimensions": [ { "name": "product", "levels": [ { "name": "product", "attributes": ["code", "name", "price"] "key": "code", "label_attribute": "name" } ] } ] Use: result = browser.aggregate(drilldown=["product"]) for row in result.table_rows("product"): print "%s: %s" % (row.label, row.record["amount_sum"])

aggregate or lter

report
Product coee tea milk Total Amount 200 250 50 500

attribute code to be used for aggregation, ltering or links and attribute name used as labels in user interface tables

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product id code name price

sales product_id ... amount

Product ...

Unit Price ...

Amount ...

user interface labels for dimensions, dimension attributes and measures

"cubes": [ { "name": "sales", "label": "Product Sales", "dimensions": ["product", ...] } ], "dimensions": [ { "name": "product", "label": "Product", "attributes": [ {"name": "code", "label": "Code"}, {"name": "name", "label": "Product"}, {"name": "price", "label": "Unit Price"}, ] } ]

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dim_date id year quarter month month_name week day weekday

year quarter month day

year month day

(in dimensions) { "name":"date", "levels": [ { "name": "year", "attributes": ["year"] }, { "name": "quarter", "attributes": ["quarter"] }, { "name": "month", "attributes": ["month", "month_name"] }, { "name": "week", "attributes": ["week"] }, { "name": "weekday", "attributes": ["weekday"] }, { "name": "day", "attributes": ["day"] } ], "hierarchies": [ {"name": "ymd", "levels":["year", "month", "day"]}, {"name": "ym", "levels":["year", "month"]}, {"name": "yqmd", "levels":["year", "quarter", "month", "day"]}, {"name": "ywd", "levels":["year", "week", "weekday"]} ], "default_hierarchy_name": "ymd" }

year year month week weekday

dimension, such as date or geography, has multiple ways of organizing attributes into a hierarchy

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Schema 12
product id code name_en name_fr name_es

Model or conguration
"dimensions": [ { "name": "product", "label": "Product", "attributes": [ {"name": "code", "label": "Code"}, { "name": "name", "label": "Product", locales: ["en", "fr", "es"] } ] } ]

dimension attributes have languagespecic content (requirement: one column per language, use locale sux)

Use:
! browser = workspace.browser(cube, locale=fr)

Then browse as usual. Localization is transparent. Notes: 1.only one locale per browser 2.refer to dimension attributes as there was no localisation: product.name 3.if non-existing locale is requested, then default (rst in the list) locale is used

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Schema
{
sales product_id ... amount

Model or conguration
"locale": "en", "cubes": [ { "name": "sales", "label": "Product Sales", "dimensions": ["product"], "measures": [ {"name": "amount", "label": "Amount"} ] } ], "dimensions": [ { "name": "product", "label": "Product", "attributes": [ { "name": "code", "label": "Code" }, { "name": "name", "label": "Product", "locales": ["en", "sk"] }, { "name": "price", "label": "Unit Price" } ] } ] }

product id code name_en name_sk unit_price

Product ...

Unit Price ...

Amount ...

Produkt ...

Jednotkov cena ...

Suma ...

dimension attributes have languagespecic content; labels in report (including measures) should be displayed according to locale

Translation dictionary for non-default locale:

{ "locale": "sk", "dimensions": { "product: { "levels": { "product" : { "label" : "Produkt", "attributes" : { "code":{"label": "Kd produktu"}, "name":{"label": "Produkt"}, "price":{"label": "Jednotkov cena"} } } } } } cubes: { "sales": { "measures": { "amount" : {"label": "Suma"} } } } }

Use:
! model_sk = model.localize(translation)

Warning: interface for model localization is not nal, might be changed in the future.

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