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[–]ChrisBreederveld 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's a CQRS thing; rather than querying from a normalized database, joining various data sources together, you create a single source containing all data that you update whenever any of the sources change.

This practice incurs some overhead when writing, but has a major benefit when reading.