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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cl... by Foobar8568 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:10AM (#30597232)
A lot of articles I read about snowflake involves data vault which is a massive turn off. And when their tech lead (Kent Graziano) is a prominent figure in the DV bullshit...
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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cl... by fritkot on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:56AM (#30597554)
Snowflake and DV have no interdependency whatsoever. Snowflake is just a database. Whether you use DV to model the data inside of it or dimensional modelling or "big wide tables" is completely up to you, there's nothing about it that requires or benefits DV in particular.
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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cl... by secondcoming on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:07AM (#30598016)
What is DV?
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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cl... by belter on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:45AM (#30598874)
Count not knowing what it is, as a blessing. Run if you can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_vault_modeling

Edit: As the Wikipedia article has no Criticism section I will add some references:

http://kejser.org/the-data-vault-vs-kimball-round-2/

https://timi.eu/blog/data-vaulting-from-a-bad-idea-to-ineffi...

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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cl... by fritkot on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:24AM (#30598101)
It's a data modelling method for data warehouses, it can be used in Snowflake or on any other data management platform.
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