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For example:

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In a 3-tier architecture where queries are served from a cluster different from the compute/transform cluster that maintains the view results:

• Use materialized view(s) in the compute/transform cluster for the query results that will be served.

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• Index the materialized view in the serving cluster(s) to serve the results from memory.

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In a 2-tier architecture where queries are served from the same cluster that performs the compute/transform operations:

• Use view(s) in the shared cluster.

• Index the view(s) to incrementally update the view results and serve the results from memory.

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In a 1-tier architecture where queries are served from the same cluster that performs the compute/transform operations:

• Use view(s) in the shared cluster.

• Index the view(s) to incrementally update the view results and serve the results from memory.

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