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+1  Q: 

What open source DB is best suited to a dimensional datawarehouse?

What open source DB is best suited to host a dimensional data-warehouse?

+2  A: 

Building and Optimizing Data Warehouse "Star Schemas" with MySQL

mcandre  2010-06-29 13:52:59
I would vote this up a lot more if I could. This is an excellent review of MySQL for dimensional datawarehouses and focuses on all the right design issues.
Cade Roux  2010-07-02 02:54:39
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If there is no specific requirement other than dimensional and open source, then MySQL + InnoDB seems to be the most popular choice. I personally believe PostgreSQL is superior.

shmichael  2010-07-06 16:08:21

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