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What's faster: Reporting from DSO or from InfoCube ?

Posted on Sep 21, 2011 at 07:30 PM 235 Views

Hi,

whats the ultimate fastests solution:

Reporting from DSO

or

Reporting from InfoCube

???

...same Data ?

Best

Martin

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  • author's profile photo Martin Maruskin
    Martin Maruskin
    Posted on Sep 21, 2011 at 08:18 PM
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    Of course it is reporting based on cubes. Imagine within DSO you have just flat structure=pure database table. Within cube you have data modeled in star schema=fact table surrounded by its dimensions.

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  • author's profile photo Gaurav Aggarwal
    Gaurav Aggarwal
    Posted on Sep 21, 2011 at 08:47 PM
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    it will depend on the data volume.

    Huge data volume - Cube will the obvious choice.

    Less data volueme - DSO an be used as well.

    with Cube, you can use BWA as well.

    Regards,

    Gaurav

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  • author's profile photo Former Member
    Former Member
    Posted on Sep 22, 2011 at 01:12 AM
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    Hi,

    For a large volume of data which is the case in general, Cube is always a better option than DSO. As Cube provides the aggregated data so reporting is faster. Please go through the link. Your doubts will be cleared.

    Indrashis

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  • author's profile photo Kiran Vasant Kere
    Kiran Vasant Kere
    Posted on Sep 22, 2011 at 05:29 AM
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    Hi,

    If you look initial performance of report performance on DSO it is very fast compared to cube. But as data increases it will be slower. It again depends on data volume that DSO or IC contains.

    If you are creating DSO report see SIDs are generated for better performance.

    IC has many advantages like like compression,aggregates,BIA index etc and so on.With IC on top of DSO you are increasing volume or DB growth but report performance will be much better.

    Thanks and regards

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    Former Member
    Posted on Sep 22, 2011 at 05:39 AM
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    Hi Martin,

    Its based up on many criteria, Like volume of data .... what kind of report to be evaluated... etc..

    As you aware of the designing technique of data base is Multi Dimension Modelling for data warehousing. And Purpose of cube to have analytical report not operational or details level of report.

    Cube is having multiple dimension and you can do your analysis maximum upto the interaction of 3224 Masterdata.

    In simple, when you want to go for detail level reporting or operational report you can do it in DSO level. It may be faster than cube based up to the volume of the records.

    An analytical report or historical report would be very much faster in cube compare to DSO .

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    Thanks

    BVR

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    Posted on Sep 22, 2011 at 06:02 AM
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    Hi Martin,

    For the same volume and same kind of data, reporting is much faster and also most recommended to be done from cube.

    Regards,

    RahulM

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    Former Member
    Posted on Sep 22, 2011 at 06:34 AM
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    Hi,

    The main difference in Reporting from Info cube and ODS is that InfoCube is meant for Multi-Dimensional reporting while ODS reporting is like 2 dimensional reporting

    Refer the below link for info

    http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/b04a79b4-bbea-2b10-da86-bf0fe933fe34&overridelayout=true

    difference-between-ods--cube-reporting

    Thanks

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  • author's profile photo Martin Sautter
    Martin Sautter
    Posted on Sep 23, 2011 at 01:20 PM
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    Hi

    sorry,

    -much theory ( it should,...)

    -no facts.

    Of course if i put data aggregated from a dso to a cube than its faster, less datasets more speed.

    ...but cubes pull much more data stored in DIM tables ...

    Thank You

    Martin

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    • Ethan Jewett
      Sep 23, 2011 at 02:03 PM

      Hi Martin,

      You're getting a lot of theory and no facts because there is no "ultimate fastest solution" for reporting. There is no right answer to the question. It depends on the type of data and on the type of query.

      The rule of thumb is that for queries that return a small number of lines (definitely 1 lines, maybe up to 10s or 100s) and are restricted to a specific set up keys, a DSO with an index on the query key will give better performance. If you are doing queries with unpredictable filters and drill-downs, or queries that aggregate a large number of records, then a cube will usually give better performance.

      Of course, we could come up with specific cases that would break these rules-of-thumb. So if you want a simple answer you'll need to explain what the dataset and query pattern looks like 😊

      Cheers,

      Ethan

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