not a problem because we are not really updating these databases. We are just reading them.
Meanwhile, fast reads are important. So, what we are really comfortable with is sacrificing con-
sistency for availability, which is exactly what NoSQL databases do.
Therefore, while NoSQL databases are probably not going to serve the BI workload directly,
they can in fact be useful data sources in the BI pipeline. You will need to ‘squash’ the multi-
structured data into a relational structure to augment the structured data sets in your BI program.
For advanced analytical practices, regardless of the data being structured or multi-structured, ...
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