Data in the SAS Intelligence Platform

Overview of Data Storage Options

In a SAS Intelligence Platform deployment, you can use one or more of these data storage options:

default SAS storage in the form of SAS tables
third-party relational, hierarchical, and network model database tables
parallel storage from the SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine (SPD Engine) and the SAS Scalable Performance Data Server (SPD Server)
multidimensional databases (cubes)

All four data sources provide input to reporting applications. The first three sources are also used as input for these data structures:

cubes, which are created with either SAS Data Integration Studio or SAS OLAP Cube Studio
data marts and data warehouses, which are created with SAS Data Integration Studio

You can use these storage options in any combination to meet your unique business requirements. The following sections describe each storage option in more detail. Central management of data sources through the SAS metadata repository is also discussed.

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