Let's Talk about Joins

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  • zillion

    Make sense of it all. Semantic data modeling and analytics with a sprinkle of AI. https://totalhack.github.io/zillion/

  • I've also been frustrated when testing out tools that kinda keep you locked into one predetermined view, table, or set of tables at a time. I made a semantic data modeling library that puts together queries (and of course joins) for you as it uses a drill-across querying technique, and can also join data across different data sources in a secondary execution layer.

    https://github.com/totalhack/zillion

    Disclaimer: this project is currently a one man show, though I use it in production at my own company.

  • starrocks

    StarRocks, a Linux Foundation project, is a next-generation sub-second MPP OLAP database for full analytics scenarios, including multi-dimensional analytics, real-time analytics, and ad-hoc queries. InfoWorld’s 2023 BOSSIE Award for best open source software.

  • I think you're talking about doing denormalization before importing data into an OLAP system to avoid subsequent joins. However, this greatly limits the flexibility of data modeling. Moreover, denormalization can be a headache-inducing process. In fact, I have tested StarRocks (https://github.com/StarRocks/starrocks), and it is capable of performing joins while streaming data imports, and the speed is very fast. It's worth giving it a try.

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