brimdata / super

A novel data lake based on super-structured data
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change variant to dynamic #5302

Closed mccanne closed 2 weeks ago

mccanne commented 3 weeks ago

This commit changes our terminology for a top-level dynamic type to "Dynamic" from "Variant". The term "variant" has been corrupted by the industry to mean efficiently-encoded semi-structured data when the traditional meaning from programming languages is a tagged union. To avoid this confusion, we're following clickhouse's terminology and using the term dynamic instead. This change is internal to the code only and does not affect any user-facing documentation as the super-structured data model is strongly typed throughout and does not expose the implied top-level dynamic type as a user-visible type.