DV is not suitable for recording the historic snapshots of data !

[mrbanane]

Hi guys,

i am nearly new here and very interested in dv. Me and my boss are in conflict, because i dont understand, how ist possible to take snapshots with dv. It's very important for our use cases.

I mean in a architecural way.

Hope you can help.

Regards

[shawkins]

DV can use snapshots of metadata to define virtual databases, but doesn't take snapshots of data other than through the materialization options.

[van.halbert]

DV doesn't preclude you from reading from one source and writing to another.   And that task could be scheduled such that it passes a parameter on what it retrieves, such that it pulls only what deems a snapshot.    Another option on this could be to write the snapshot to a different source based on partitioning needs.   Using the multi-source option, you could control that source dynamically.     Just something else to consider.