8.6. Avoid “diamond shapes” in graphs

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8.6. Avoid “diamond shapes” in graphs

 

Avoid designing Anatella graphs with diamond shape in them: For example:

This is BAD:

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This is GOOD (and it’s equivalent to the above BAD graph):

 

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(Please note that we had to duplicate the AN76E5~1_img69FilterRows Action in order to remove the left diamond shape).

 

 

When there are some diamond shapes inside a graph, Anatella is forced to create a temporary HD cache containing all the data. The extra I/O’s performed to create (and thereafter read) this HD cache cost a large amount of time and disk space (and should therefore be avoided). More precisely, Anatella automatically creates HD caches on the left-most-corner of the diamonds: here: number1

 

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