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FYI: myself (and I believe a reasonable number of other software developers) treat the word "Automatic" as a red flag. Magic means you don't understand how some
by stephenr 10y ago
FYI: myself (and I believe a reasonable number of other software developers) treat the word "Automatic" as a red flag. Magic means you don't understand how something works. Auto(matic) means you don't control something.
Something you don't control and don't understand is dangerous IMO.
- ahachete 10y agoThanks for the feedback. I agree sometimes myself think the same way too. In this case, it conveys a non-dangerous, powerful message: rather than having to design your DDL, and have that DDL updated every single time data with a different structure appears in your source stream (MongoDB), that DDL is designed for you. It is automatic because you don't need to do anything. It is "magic" as if ToroDB would be designing the DDL for you, real time, and this is quite disruptive IMHO. Now, there's no danger: no data is ever lost or mapped incorrectly. Just if you don't like the generated DDL, create some views and done! All data shaped exactly as you want :)