Discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the MDS
Although the MDS simplifies the data life cycle significantly, it is important to highlight and discuss its pitfalls.
The advantages can be summarized as follows:
- Speed of delivery: Setting up an MDS can take as little as a few hours to a couple of days, depending on the specific use case. Additionally, its self-service characteristic brings data products and solutions closer to where the business questions arise.
- Cost: As the MDS is cloud-based and uses out-of-the-box tools, costs are cut down significantly due to reduced complexity in architecture and hardware. In addition, cloud-native data warehouses provide cheaper data processing and storage when compared to on-premises systems.
- Democratization: Here, we see two dimensions of democratization – lowered technical barriers and the dissemination of information across an organization. The combination of managed ingestion and SQL-first tools lowers the...