Run enterprise OLAP directly inside Snowflake with greater performance, simpler architecture, and dramatically lower total cost of ownership.
For years, organizations accepted the limitations of legacy OLAP platforms because there were few viable alternatives. Today, that has changed.
Companies are increasingly frustrated by the complexity, infrastructure requirements, and high total cost of ownership associated with traditional OLAP deployments like Oracle Essbase or Microsoft Analysis Services deployments. Maintaining separate OLAP infrastructure, specialized development skills, and proprietary scripting languages creates unnecessary friction in modern analytics environments.
Common challenges with legacy OLAP platforms include:
Casabase Cube was designed to solve these problems by delivering a fully modern OLAP engine built directly inside Snowflake.
Casabase Cube was designed for modern data platforms, not legacy OLAP infrastructure. By running directly inside Snowflake, it delivers the power of multidimensional analytics without the complexity, performance limitations, or operational overhead of traditional cube technologies.
Unlike legacy OLAP platforms, Casabase Cube combines enterprise-scale performance, simplified architecture, and seamless integration with the modern analytics ecosystem.
Casabase Cube runs entirely inside Snowflake as a Native Application. There are no external cube servers, infrastructure deployments, or complex synchronization processes. Your OLAP environment operates directly within your existing data platform.
Casabase Cube is designed to process extremely large datasets and high row counts while maintaining fast query performance. By leveraging Snowflake’s distributed compute engine, complex aggregations and dimensional queries execute significantly faster than traditional OLAP systems.
All cube data, including hierarchies, base-level data, aggregated values, and calculated members, can be accessed using standard SQL. There are no proprietary scripting languages, MDX queries, or specialized reporting tools required.
Because Casabase Cube operates directly within Snowflake, it inherits Snowflake’s enterprise security, governance, and access control framework. This eliminates the need to maintain a separate security model for OLAP data.
By eliminating OLAP servers, infrastructure management, and specialized development resources, Casabase Cube dramatically reduces the cost and operational burden associated with legacy OLAP platforms.
Casabase Cube delivers the advanced multidimensional capabilities organizations relied on in legacy OLAP platforms like Oracle Essbase, but without the complexity, infrastructure, or proprietary tooling.
Capabilities include:
• Primary and alternate hierarchies
• Shared members
• Dynamic member formulas
• Two-pass calculations
• Solve order logic
• Complex dimensional calculations
All calculations execute directly inside Snowflake, allowing organizations to preserve sophisticated business logic while eliminating the operational burden of maintaining traditional OLAP environments.
Because Casabase Cube operates directly within Snowflake, it can leverage the full capabilities of the modern data platform.
Calculations and logic can be extended through:
• Inline SQL formulas within queries
• Snowflake stored procedures
• Data pipeline transformations
• Integration with modern analytics workflows
This allows organizations to combine traditional OLAP modeling with modern data engineering techniques.
Casabase Cube delivers value across the organization.
Executives and Finance Leaders
• faster access to trusted aggregated data
• improved performance for enterprise reporting
• lower technology costs
Analytics and BI Teams
• seamless integration with tools like Power BI, Tableau, and Alteryx
• fast access to multidimensional data
• simplified data modeling
Data Engineers
• SQL-based interaction with cube structures
• native Snowflake integration
• reduced operational complexity
Architecture
Snowflake Native Application running directly inside Snowflake platform
Separate OLAP server platform
Infrastructure
No servers, installations, or infrastructure required
Requires Essbase servers or Oracle Cloud EPM environment
Deployment
Install instantly via Snowflake Marketplace
Complex installation or Oracle Cloud provisioning
Data Access
Full access via standard SQL
Requires MDX, report scripts, or proprietary APIs
Data Volume Handling
Designed to process extremely large row counts within Snowflake
Performance degrades with large data volumes
Performance
Leverages Snowflake’s distributed compute engine
Limited by cube server resources
Integration with BI Tools
Native integration with Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, Fabric and other Snowflake-compatible tools
Requires specialized connectors or middleware
Enterprise Governance
Inherits Snowflake security, access controls, and governance
Separate security model
Operational Complexity
Managed entirely within Snowflake
Requires cube administration and maintenance
Upgrades & Maintenance
Automatic updates delivered through the Snowflake Native App framework
Manual upgrades and patching required
Total Cost of Ownership
Significantly lower due to eliminated infrastructure, licensing, and no specialized skills required
High licensing, infrastructure, and skill costs
Many organizations continue to rely on legacy OLAP platforms even though they introduce unnecessary complexity, cost, and operational overhead.
Ask yourself a few simple questions:
Are you maintaining dedicated OLAP infrastructure just to support Essbase?
Do your teams rely on specialized calculation scripts or MDX queries to access data?
Are cube rebuilds slowing down reporting cycles?
Are licensing and infrastructure costs continuing to rise?
Is it difficult to connect modern BI tools directly to your cube data?
If any of these challenges sound familiar, it may be time to consider a modern approach.
Casabase Cube delivers the power of multidimensional analytics directly inside Snowflake, eliminating legacy infrastructure while providing faster performance, simpler access to data, and dramatically lower total cost of ownership.
Casabase Cube is a Snowflake-native OLAP engine designed to deliver high-performance multidimensional analytics at enterprise scale. Built directly within Snowflake and delivered as a Snowflake Native Application, it provides real-time aggregation, dynamic dimensional modeling, and seamless SQL access without the infrastructure, licensing, or operational burden of legacy cube platforms. The result is the fastest, most cost-effective OLAP solution available for organizations modernizing their analytics architecture.
Casabase Cube serves the entire enterprise, from CFOs and executive leaders who demand faster, clearer insight and lower total cost of ownership, to data engineers and architects who need scalable, high-performance infrastructure. It delivers real-time multidimensional analytics for decision-makers while simplifying the data stack and significantly reducing the cost and complexity of legacy OLAP solutions.
Absolutely. Casabase Cube provides direct, SQL-based access to all dimensions, hierarchies, and dynamically aggregated data within Snowflake, no proprietary languages or specialized cube expertise required. Its real-time performance and seamless integration with existing BI and analytics tools make it fast to deploy, simple to manage, and easy for both business users and engineers to adopt.
Casabase Cube integrates seamlessly with tools such as Alteryx, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Tableau, and other analytics platforms because it runs directly inside Snowflake and is fully accessible via standard SQL. There are no proprietary connectors or specialized drivers required. If the tool can connect to Snowflake, it can immediately leverage Casabase Cube.
Casabase Cube saves organizations significant time by eliminating the infrastructure, maintenance, and operational overhead associated with traditional OLAP platforms. Because it runs directly inside Snowflake as a Native Application, there are no cube servers to manage, no complex deployments, and no lengthy rebuild cycles. Teams can focus on analyzing data and delivering insights instead of maintaining OLAP infrastructure.
Casabase Cube is delivered as a Snowflake Native Application and can be installed directly from the Snowflake Marketplace into your existing Snowflake account. There is no external infrastructure to deploy or manage, allowing you to get up and running quickly within your current environment.
Casabase Cube is delivered through a simple subscription model via the Snowflake Marketplace. Organizations install the application directly into their Snowflake environment and pay a recurring subscription fee, while all data processing continues to run within their own Snowflake account. This allows companies to adopt and scale the solution easily without managing additional infrastructure or software deployments.
Casabase Cube offers a free trial directly through the Snowflake Marketplace. Organizations can install the Snowflake Native Application into their own Snowflake environment and begin evaluating its capabilities with their existing data. This allows teams to explore performance, functionality, and integration with their analytics tools before committing to a subscription.
Yes. Because Casabase Cube is delivered as a Snowflake Native Application, updates, enhancements, and bug fixes are deployed seamlessly within your Snowflake environment. There are no manual upgrades, patch cycles, or infrastructure changes required, and all updates are included as part of your subscription.
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