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by nikhilsimha 807 days ago
we call this chaining.

In the API itself - you could specify the chain links by specifying the source.

To be precise - a GroupBy(aggregation primitive) can have a Join(enrichment primitive) as a source. To rephrase, you can enrich first and then aggregate and continue this chain indefinitely.

> Graph DBs are kind of scaling poorly

That makes sense. Since you scaling these on the read side it is much much harder than pre-computing on the write side. (That is what Chronon allows you to do)