Abstract. Much effort has been put into building data streams management systems for querying data streams. However, the query languages have mostly been SQL-based and aimed for low-level analysis of base data; therefore, there has been little work on supporting OLAP-like queries that provide real-time multidimensional and summarized views of stream data. In this paper, we introduce a multi-dimensional stream query language and its formal semantics. Our approach turns low-level data streams into informative high-level aggregates and enables multi-dimensional and granular OLAP queries against data streams, which supports the requirements of today’s real time enterprises much better. A comparison with the STREAM CQL language shows that our approach is more flexible and powerful for high-level OLAP queries, as well as far more compact and concise.
Classification: Real-time OLAP, Streaming data, Real-time decision support
Submission Category: Regular paper