The Dangers of DIY Database Replication

Database replication for analytics involves numerous technical challenges such as incremental updates, idempotence, schema changes, history mode, data type mapping, replication and sync monitoring, optimization, security, support and assistance, and scalability. Addressing these issues is crucial to ensure efficient data operations, accurate insights, and minimized risks of data integrity problems or poor performance. Automated data integration solutions like Fivetran can help simplify the process by reducing human intervention and providing off-the-shelf support for various data sources and destinations.