Data Governance & Modeling

Technical strategies to ensure data trust, quality, and scalability. It moves beyond "moving data" to "managing data as a product".

Data Modeling Architectures

Pattern	Status	Context
Medallion Architecture	ADOPT	The standard Bronze/Silver/Gold layering. Simple, effective, and widely understood for Lakehouse setups.
Data Vault 2.0	ASSESS	Investigating for complex enterprise hubs where auditing and historical tracking are critical, despite the complexity overhead.
Kimball (Star Schema)	ADOPT	The Gold standard for the presentation layer (Data Marts) to ensure fast BI performance.

Tool	Status	Context
Great Expectations	TRIAL	Comprehensive validation framework. powerful but heavy. Evaluating lighter alternatives for simple pipelines.
SQLMesh	ASSESS	Monitoring this as a potential successor to dbt for more robust environment management and semantic understanding.

Resource	Description
Data Vault 2.0	Official resources for the Data Vault system of business intelligence.
Great Expectations	The shared standard for data quality and pipeline validation.