There is a version of SQR that can use multidimensional databases like Essbase.

In 2012, the company introduced an update of its proprietary multidimensional database that BOARD is based on.

This problem is tackled by executive information system products containing multidimensional databases, such as Information Resources' Express.

Still, clustering techniques coming from artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, or fuzzy logic are more efficient within large, multidimensional databases (Brimicombe 2007).

The same modeling approach, at the logical level, can be used for any physical form, such as multidimensional database or even flat files.

For multidimensional databases, Hilbert order has been proposed to be used instead of Z order because it has better locality-preserving behavior.

To improve query performance multidimensional databases or cubes also called multidimensional online analytical processing (MOLAP) were formed.

As the number and size of dimensions increases, developers of multidimensional databases increasingly face technical problems in the physical representation of data.

If the multidimensional database reserved storage space for every possible value, it would need to store 2,400,000,000 (4 x 4 x 3 x 10,000 x 5,000) cells.

However, it implements these using traditional spreadsheet concepts, as opposed to Improv's use of multidimensional databases.