To better understand a record object returned by the MDEX Engine, we can look at an example of a record object for Bottle A from a wine store.

In this example, our wine store data consists of two dimensions, one for Wine Type and another for Flavor.

The wine data can be represented logically in a hierarchy of dimension values, as follows:

The wine data can be represented as records that correspond to physical bottles of wine, as follows:

In this example, you can see that Bottle A has been tagged with two dimension values from the Flavor dimension. This means that Bottle A has two dimension locations within the Flavor dimension.

The following illustration shows the record object for Bottle A: