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Does OLAP Need an ORM
What if we could bring some of the benefits of ORMs to the world of OLAP? Should we just apply the ORMs we already have to analytics?
In short, we’d propose that a great developer experience (DX) layer for OLAP should selectively borrow from the transactional ORM playbook, while discarding what doesn't fit the analytical world: from CDC pipelines or downstream analysts) Offer OLAP-native migration paths (favor versioned rollouts over in-place ALTER) Expose types that can travel across all the infra that might surround your OLAP database (eg. Our mission at Fiveonefour is to bring great developer experiences to the analytics stack - and this covers everything from streaming topics and orchestrated workflows, to the local dev server, to github integrations and preview branches, to AI copilots.
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