1. An advanced database system, comprising: at least two system nodes, wherein each system node of the at least two system nodes comprises physical memory; a data distribution module for the distribution of metric-based data from a plurality of data owners amongst the at least two system nodes, wherein the metric-based data comprises one or more fact tables; a dimensional parallelism module for parallelizing attribute-based data across the at least two system nodes, wherein the attribute-based data comprises one or more dimensional tables; and wherein the data distribution module distributes data belonging to each of the plurality of data owners in data elements of substantially uniform size sequentially amongst the at least two system nodes, and wherein distributing the data sequentially comprises: distributing at least one data element belonging to a first data owner sequentially from a first node to a last node; distributing at least one data element belonging to a second data owner at the next sequential node following the last node according to a node numbering schema; and distributing at least one different data element belonging to the first data owner at the next sequential node following the last node according to the node numbering schema.