data engineering

Basics of dimesional modeling

Dimensional Modeling

Vasav

5 minute read

In the last article, I covered the data warehouse architecture. In order to leverage data warehouse to its full potential and get most out of the data, data modeling becomes a crucial part. Dimensional modeling is a very popular choice for analytical data loads. It is widely popular due to performance improvements over transactional/normalized data and also it makes it very easy to understand the data. Due to the simplicity, it also helps to deliver business value quickly. Essentially…