Online analytical processing (OLAP) is software technology you can use to analyze business data from different points of view.
Organizations collect and store data from multiple data sources, such as websites, applications, smart meters, and internal systems.
OLAP or Online Analytical Processing is a category of software that allows users to extract and examine business data from different points of view.
It makes use of pre-calculated and pre-aggregated data from multiple databases to improve the data analysis process.
Databases such as Oracle Database Server, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL are row-oriented database systems.
These systems have been traditionally used for data warehousing, but they are better suited for transactional processing (OLTP) than for analytics.