Data warehousing is out of date?

Martyn Jones, Manhattan, 29th September 2024

Narrator: According to some data-mesh folk, data warehousing is “a data management construct that dates back to the eighties,” I have a problem with that. It’s as if that was somehow a bad thing. Is it? For me, that’s quite a weak argument that, in a way, treats people as if they were idiots.

It is like someone asking Newton, “So, Sir Isaac, you don’t still believe in that old gravity nonsense, do you?”

They also don’t realise that their beloved distributed computing and data paradigm-shifter is way older than the oldest data warehouse.

Pete: Hello Dud. What’s the date today?

Dud: It’s Sunday, the 23^rd of September, Pete. All day.

Pete: Oh, blimey. I need to check the use-by-date on my Data Warehouse.

Dud: Why’s that Pete?

Pete: It might be out of date, Dud. I wouldn’t want to serve up out-of-date data from an out-of-date data warehouse right now?

Dud: But does that really apply to data and data warehousing?

Pete: Everything is covered, Dud. Sell-by date. Eat-by date. Use-by date. Analyse-by date. Who-knows-what date. It’s all in.