Real-Time InfoCube

[Former Member]

Hey there!

Can you give me a hint, why a Real-Time InfoCube is called "Real-Time"?

I know the difference to a standard InfoCube, that it´s only used for storing plan data.

But why the term real-time?

Thanks for your support!

Philipp

[Former Member]

The term is refering to the real-time (parallel) writes that real-time infocubes offer. Also this term has nothing to do with the Real Time Data acquisition term in BW, in case that this crossed your mind

regards

Giorgos

[Former Member]

hi,

During entry of planning data, the data is written to a real-time InfoCube data request. As soon as the number of records in a data request exceeds a threshold value, the request is closed and a rollup is carried out for this request in defined aggregates (asynchronously). You can still rollup and define aggregates, collapse, and so on, as before.

Depending on the database on which they are based, real-time InfoCubes differ from standard BasisCubes in the way they are indexed and partitioned. For an Oracle DBMS this means, for example, no Bitmap indexes for the fact table and no partitioning (initiated by BI) of the fact table according to the packet dimensions.

Reduced read-only performance is accepted as a drawback of real-time InfoCubes, in favor of the option of parallel (transactional) writing and improved write performance.

if you want to know more about this. check the following link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/39/100c38e15711d4b2d90050da4c74dc/frameset.htm

hope this help you

regards

harikrishna N

[Former Member]

Real time infocube is called so because

You can have a snapshot of the actual data which

could be written over that as quick as the data is generated

and compared with the plan data