Towards the Automatic Generation of Analytical End-User Tools Metadata for Data Warehouses

摘要

Multidimensional models are used to obtain the required database metadata for implementing the data warehouse. Surprisingly, current approaches for multidimensional modelling overlook the necessity of additional data-cube metadata to allow end-user tools to query the data warehouse. To overcome this situation, we propose the use of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) in order to automatically derive both kinds of metadata in a systematic and integrated way.