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What Are the Differences Between ER Modeling and Dimensional Modeling?

Differences between ER modeling and dimensional modeling

ER modeling is transactional and complies with 3NF modeling.
Dimensional modeling mainly refers to the design of fact tables and dimension tables. Dimensional modeling is mainly used to implement multi-angle and multi-layer data query and analysis.

DataArts Studio is a data lake operations platform. Dimensional modeling is used more frequent.

Parent topic: DataArts Architecture

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