Posts tagged "data-vault"
- From Data Vault to an AI-ready silver layer: same build order
Vault steps build an AI-ready silver layer's meaning layer: unhashed business keys, persistent staging audit, data contract, not point-in-time or bridge tables.
- You don't need to unlearn Data Vault to model for AI agents
In data modeling for AI, Ensemble Logical Modeling becomes a business ontology: the meaning layer of an AI-ready data architecture. It doesn't need the tables.
- What a hub becomes when an agent reads the model
Data Vault and third normal form beside AIMS, construct by construct: where each hub, link and same-as link goes when an agent reads the model.
- Every method stops at the concept
Silver layer modeling methods say which business thing a table is about. Only the costliest says what each column means, and that's where AI answers break.
- Integration by exception
Silver layer integration is the last step, not an entry fee. AIMS adds a shared key and a golden record only when a business requirement needs one.
- You don't need Data Vault anymore
You don't need Data Vault or third normal form in your silver layer. AI reads business meaning from an ontology: the deciding stays, the rebuilding goes.
- Modeling for Machines That Can Read
Once a machine can read a sentence about your business, every benefit Data Vault's tables bought has a cheaper home. That's data modeling for AI.
- This is why we need data engineers
Will AI replace data engineers? We built Ask AI into DeltaVault, then recorded it losing a race to a data engineer building one view by hand.
- Should Software Be Free?
Free software still burns hosting, AI tokens, and human hours. A working position on honest software pricing and a free tier for the Data Vault community.
- Data Vault Needs New Rules for Lakehouse
Columnar storage, generated views, and AUTO CDC took over every load reason for Data Vault satellite splitting. What is left is business meaning.
- The Lakehouse Ended One Satellite Per Source
One satellite per source is a row-store habit. On Delta Lake width is cheap and joins are what you pay for: consolidate Data Vault satellites by meaning.
- How raw is your Data Vault?
In a raw vault, raw describes the data, not the structure. Why source-shaped vaults never integrate, and how to rebuild yours without starting over.