MDD Applied to Data Warehousing Systems: Cube Model

Cube Model (http://www.cubemodel.com) is an interesting example of MDD applied to data warehousing systems. They build models using the CWM specification and they use the model to assist in developing many of the necessary artifacts in data warehouse systems.

 “Therefore, the model is far more useful than just fancy documentation. Also, our models contain nothing like application code, so there is no translation of procedural code between languages. What the models do contain is a description of which objects have what kind of relationships to which other objects. Developers can write the code for a particular kind of relationship once and then use the model to generate an application to call their code in all the right places.”

You can find in Cube Model site interesting articles, papers and presentations:

• Building a Data Warehouse using CWM
• Faster Development with the CWM
• Cube Model: MDA Meets Open Source