Workday, Inc.

Yuh-Ming Shyy

Christof Bornhoevd

Ashish Patel

Yunfeng Fei

Aaron Kaminsky

Ramabrahmam Venkata Velury

Ragy Eleish

The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for processing queries to sparsely populated datasets. The method includes (i) receiving a query from a client system, (ii) determining, based at least in part on the query, a plurality of partitions of a hypercube that are expected to comprise information used in generating a response for the query, (iii) communicating a set of requests to a data source storing the hypercube, the set of requests comprising one or more requests corresponding to the plurality of partitions of the hypercube, (iv) obtaining, from the data source, a set of results to the set of requests, the set of results comprising data stored in the plurality of partitions of the hypercube, (v) determining a plurality of virtual objects for the set of results, (vi) combining the plurality of virtual objects into a response to the query, and (vii) providing, to the client system, the response to the query.

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Yuh-Ming Shyy