title: "Idiomatic Materialize SQL chart" description: "Cheatsheet of idiomatic Materialize SQL." menu: main:
parent: idiomatic-materialize-appendix
weight: 10
identifier: idiomatic-materialize-appendix-idiomatic-materialize-sql-chart
Materialize follows the SQL standard (SQL-92) implementation and strives for compatibility with the PostgreSQL dialect. However, for some use cases, Materialize provides its own idiomatic query patterns that can provide better performance.
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