# Is Kimball dimensional modeling still relevant in a modern data warehouse?

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**Created:** [January 30, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/is-kimball-dimensional-modeling-still-relevant-in-a-modern-data-warehouse/225 "2019-01-30T19:15:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![michael-kaminsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@michael-kaminsky](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/michael-kaminsky)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/is-kimball-dimensional-modeling-still-relevant-in-a-modern-data-warehouse/225/2 "2019-01-30T19:25:40Z")

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I have a lot of thoughts from my anecdotal experience and knowledge of redshift internals, but would love to rigorously test them. If you or your company would like to sponsor an analysis of performance using snowflake / star / denormalized across the big 3 warehouse solutions, get at me (I don’t want to have to cover the redshift / bigquery / snowflake compute costs on my own).

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