[Core] what are "pure marts"?

[AlexVialaBellander]

Link to the page(s) on docs.getdbt.com requiring updates

https://docs.getdbt.com/best-practices/how-we-structure/4-marts

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What do you mean with "pure marts" here? A colleague asked me and I cant explain it well enough. Could it be expanded?

Reviewers/Stakeholders/SMEs

Not sure who that would be, but probably the authors of the dbt docs. it's your opinionated guide so yea?

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[runleonarun]

Thank you for opening this issue! @dbeatty10 can you expand on pure marts or recommend another SME?

[dbeatty10]

Current docs

Explanation

This is more simple than it looks! In this context, "pure marts" just means marts that do not include any time-based rollups like orders_per_day or orders_per_week, but instead use the semantic layer for dynamic and flexible downstream aggregations.

Suggestion

To avoid confusion, we could update our docs to be something like this:

✅ Focus on entity naming. Use plain English to name the file based on the concept that forms the grain of the mart customers, orders. It's usually best to avoid including rollups on time dimensions in this layer (such as orders_per_day). Instead, consider refactoring such rollups into the semantic layer, enhancing flexibility and scalability.