Formerly code-named Plato, OLAP Services was introduced with Version 7.0 of SQL Server in late 1998. See OLAP. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

As a result, analytic data processing (OLAP) is still dominated by more mature SQL databases like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and relative newcomers like Amazon Redshift and Snowflake, or IBM Netezza ...