White PapersAdapting to change gracefully, without warehouse reorganization, is a suggested design goal by Kimball, and Inmon introduces the concepts of semantic change and content change to achieve the same ends.
This is Kalido’s number one design goal. By driving the physical structures from a logical business model that Kalido manages directly, it is possible to change the logical model and allow Kalido to re-generate and populate new physical structures appropriately. Because Kalido also holds master data in a highly generic schema as well as in the dimensional tables, the dimensional tables can be regenerated and populated when a structural change occurs with no manual intervention. This allows graceful evolution of both schema and data.
