What is the difference between the materialized view and normal view?

Data Science, AI and ML
#1

Sql

#2

The normal view can be defined as a virtual table created as a result of the query expression A materialized view is stored on the disk.

#3

Materialized Views are actually stored and updated with each transaction. Views are computed with each query.

They really only make sense for Read Heavy, Write Light workloads. Whenever a transactions updates the underlying table, the materialized view is updated too. Whenever a lock is taken on either table, it propagates to the other.

Unless you really know what you’re doing, I recommend staying away from materialized views. You shouldn’t be doing analytics on your OLTP db anyway.