Future of OLEDB for OLAP and XMLA

From: gabhan (gabhan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/27/04

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    Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:51:03 -0700

    I am interested in peoples' opinions on the future of OLEDB for OLAP and XMLA.

    XMLA seems great for interoperability but does not match MSOLAP and PTS on
    LAN speed networks. Sure, http compression can help ... but still, XMLA still
    (in my experince at least) is slower.

    What will MS offer with Yukon? If MS use XMLA internally within the next
    MSOLAP provider then would there be any point in third parties using it
    rather than writing their own client using the XMLA protocol directly? If the
    MSOLAP provider simply mapped the OLEDB for OLAP calls to XMLA calls then
    surely clients should just use XMLA directly .. (an easier API to code
    against)? Also, if this is the case, wouldn't the Yukon MS provider be slower
    on LAN speed networks than the current MSOLAP.2 provider?

    Or will Yukon provide a means for clients to continue to use a binary
    protocol over the wire and offer XMLA as an addition?

    Can anyone from MS shed some light here?

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