If you use the "Object" data type (json), you can have a schema-less datastore and that can alleviate the need of complex ETL pipelines. But yes, if you need to

If you use the "Object" data type (json), you can have a schema-less datastore and that can alleviate the need of complex ETL pipelines. But yes, if you need to decorate the data before ingestion, you need some ETL pipeline. In other words, if the ETL pipeline is just storing the data in columnar format by reading some JSON fields, you don't need that anymore with the new CH json data type