Performance evaluation of MRDataCube for data cube computation algorithm using MapReduce

This paper presents the performance evaluation of MRDataCube which we have previously proposed as an efficient algorithm for data cube computation with data reduction using MapReduce framework. We performed a large number of analyses and experiments to evaluate the MRDataCube algorithm in the MapReduce framework. In this paper, we compared it to simple MR-based data cube computation algorithms, e.g., MRNaive, MR2D as well as algorithms converted into MR paradigms from conventional ROLAP (relational OLAP) data cube algorithms, e.g., MRGBLP and MRPipeSort. From the experimental results, we observe that the MRDataCube algorithm outperforms the other algorithms in comparison tests by increasing the number of tuples and/or dimensions.