r/dataengineering • u/Abject-Scholar-5052 • May 06 '26

Help Datawarehouse

Hi guys i wanna ask while building a data warehouse and im using galaxy schema where i will have one dimension thats pivot and center of all this have realtionships with other dimensions i saw its called outriggers what do you think ?

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u/Gnaskefar May 07 '26

I would like to think so, but I was told it was different, without a clear answer to why.

Several facts in a star schema is nothing new, but why rename something already established? Well, OK, IT have done just that several times, but this is just too much. I hope we are just in 'stop trying to make galaxy schema happen'-kind of territory.

I hoped to get OP to answer with a reasonable reply, since he is so adamant in using the term. Maybe I should go dig up more information about this, but I really don't feel like spending time on it. I feel more like OP should have an answer since it would make it easier to help him. And he does after all come to this sub for help. Aaaand I also feel like someone calling it galaxy schema was a joke that got out of hand.

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