The Relational DB Headaches I No Longer Have

I’ve been working with columnar databases for several years. There are many advantages that I’ve internalized using Vertica and Redshift…

I’ve been working with columnar databases for several years. There are many advantages that I’ve internalized using Vertica and Redshift. I also use them in AWS, always. So I’ll just talk about the way I design from a practical standpoint.

• I never shy away from using human readable field names.

• I never shy away from using materialized views.

• I never worry …