Here's my point:
1. Materialized views are an amazing way to speed up analytics;
2. MVs come in many forms, not always CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW.
3. MVs are an ancient technique (think CREATE INDEX);
4. MVs are ever more important as data becomes heterogenous and distributed.
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Tulips are not durable, not scarce, not programmable, not fungible, not verifiable, not divisible, and hard to transfer. But tell me more about your analogy...
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