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ashes··on Friendlier SQL with DuckDB
I've been experimenting with DuckDB using modified Mondrian OLAP engine and it looks very promising so far, performance wise.

A questions I have to author, or anyone using: Is there a easy way to transfer whole Postgres DB into DuckDB so I can do some tests with actual client data? I could export each table by hand and reimport it, but that is kind of painful.

ashes··on The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube (2020)
We still use MDX. Did some testing with DAX, but I don't believe its step in the right direction. As for tools, we mostly use in-house tools build either on Mondrian or connecting to MS Analysis Services trough XMLA - depending on the use case.
ashes··on The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube (2020)
Related question; does anyone use JVM-based OLAP that is not based on Mondrian (https://github.com/pentaho/mondrian) but still supports MDX queries? We've been looking for alternatives for a while.