The name FastCube has occurred, as you understand, from FastReport and the cube. FastReport - a family of report generators for different platforms, and a cube - OLAP structure. The abbreviation OLAP means - online analytical processing. But why the cube?
It is simple, if in the usual summary table the data is presented as a two-dimensional matrix, then in a cube - three dimensions. Generally speaking, they certainly can be more. Just the word cube most clearly reflects the multidimensional structure. Even if you have never worked with OLAP, you probably heard the expression "data cubes". This is the OLAP cubes.
OLAP cubes are designed to display large amounts of data in a legible form for conducting analytics and determining patterns, for example, falling sales or population growth. In relational databases, information is stored separately in different tables and to get a complete picture, the analyst needs to reduce several ...