Lexicon

Denormalized Read Models

Kind: pattern

Layer: Contracts Core

Record: lexicon:denormalized-read-models

Canonical: Lexicon

A read-optimized model that deliberately duplicates data to serve queries fast, trading storage and write cost for read speed.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Data Semantics and before Non-Redundant Storage.

Category

  • Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics

In tension with

  • Normalization
  • Normalization / Denormalized Read Models

Linked from

  • Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics
  • The resolutions