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by jacques_chester 2028 days ago
I think that it's true that many databases offer incremental updates and it's incorrect to say that manual refreshes were the state of the art.

The important point is that Materialize can do it for almost any query, very efficiently, compared to existing options. That opens a lot of possibilities.

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> The important point is that Materialize can do it for almost any query, very efficiently, compared to existing options. That opens a lot of possibilities.

Yes, this does seem like a very big deal.