Kimball vs Inmon vs Data Vault 2.0: Choose Like an Architect, Not a Fanboy
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If you've spent more than five minutes in data warehousing, you've seen it:
- Someone says "Kimball is dead, cloud fixes everything."
- Someone else says "Inmon is the only serious enterprise architecture."
- A third person slides in with "Data Vault 2.0 is the future—just add Hubs, Links, Satellites and boom: audit-ready agility."
And then… nothing gets built for six weeks. Everyone shows up with a favorite methodology, a few conference slides in their head, and one dangerous sentence: "We should standardize on the right approach."
Here's my promise: this post will help you pick an approach the way an architect picks a structure—not like a sports fan picking a jersey .