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

Hey, so I guess I’d like to give some context and get a feel for what other people are doing. These are the “denominations” of data people that I know about. Feel free to add.

  • Inmon - Bill Inmon
  • Data Vault 2.0 - Dan Linstedt
  • Kimball - Ralph Kimball
  • Functional Kimball - Maxime Beauchemin
  • Agile Kimball - Lawrence Corr
  • Denormalised Tables

My org is looking at a green fields implementation so, I’m pretty attracted to Maximes Functional Kimball approach, but I hear lots of merit in just making wide tables.

The challenge with wide data is that its challenging to contextualise a 500 column wide table properly and there is no recognised “denomination” that I can train my analysts in a consistent fashion and recruit already skilled applicants. I don’t want to advertise for a “data munger”…