... instance, if the document has 1000 word occurrences, two of which are " ;database. " then the doculllent ~vould be placed at the ,002 coordinate in the dimension cor~esponding to " ;database. " ... unoccupied. then the "border" represents only a small addition to the volume of the cube (i.e., the number of tuples in the fact table). In that case, the size of the stored data ... the data cube, the vie~vs we n-ould choose to materialize xi11 typically be aggregations of the full data cube. The coarser the partition implied by the grouping, the less space the mate- rialized...