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Change Data Capture (CDC) is taking over the world!

Change Data Capture (CDC) is taking over the world!

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Feb 02, 2025
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If you go back ten years, you’ll see that daily dimensional snapshotting ruled (and continues to rule) the world.

There are tons of drawbacks to daily snapshots such as:

  • What about intraday changes?

    • They get squashed and forgotten about

  • What about pipelines that require the most up-to-date dimensions in a low latency way?

    • Low-latency use cases either acce…

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