Analytics over Big Data: Exploring the Convergence of Data Warehousing, OLAP and Data-Intensive Cloud Infrastructures

This paper explores the convergence of Data Warehousing, OLAP and data-intensive Cloud Infrastructures in the context of so-called analytics over Big Data. The paper briefly reviews some state-of-the-art proposals, highlights open research issues and, finally, it draws possible research directions in this scientific field.