REFRESH MONDRIAN CACHE ON THE BA SERVER
One of the strengths of mondrian’s design is that you don’t need to do any processing to populate special data structures before you start running OLAP queries. More than a few people have observed that this makes mondrian an excellent choice for ‘real-time OLAP’ — running multi-dimensional queries on a database which is constantly changing.
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The Cache stores data in byte code format in memory which helps in great performance enhancements. However, when you have a cube with (near-)real-time data, the caching can get in your way. If, for instance, your data is updated every ten minutes, but the data from an hour ago is still cached, your dashboard won’t show your new data.
There are two steps to clear the cache from the server.
Step 1: After you login to the BA Server, Go to Tools –> Refresh. There you can manually clear the cache.
Step 2: There is another way of clearing the Mondrian Cache is by using a Kettle job to clear your cache after you complete the insertion/updating of the new data. First we have to create a transformation. Inside the transformation, using the HTTP Client Step we can clear the cache through the ETL(Before that just use a Generate Rows step since the HTTP step works if there is a step before it) by passing the following URL inside the step “localhost:8080/pentaho/api/system/refresh/modrianSchemaCache” and also the user credentials. It clears the Mondrian cache every time the ETL runs on the server. It clears cache for all the cubes that are present in the server so that it is ready for the fresh data and we wont face any cache related issue which has always been a headache for real time data.
Similarly, we can also use this mechanism to clear the cache for reporting metadata and also for the repository cache. We just have to follow the same procedure in this also.
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