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minus-squarelemmyvore@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoBut denormalized databases are not a new thing. There are engines that build on it on purpose in order to be more efficient, like Cassandra. Most data warehousing engines use this “trick”. And of course you can do it with a regular RDBMS too.
But denormalized databases are not a new thing. There are engines that build on it on purpose in order to be more efficient, like Cassandra. Most data warehousing engines use this “trick”. And of course you can do it with a regular RDBMS too.