What Is Idempotence?

Idempotence is an important characteristic of many systems, including Fivetran, where if you execute an operation multiple times, the result will not change after the initial execution. In data integration, idempotence prevents duplicate records from being loaded and makes your data pipeline self-correcting. Without idempotence, duplication can lead to misleading insights, broken operations downstream, wasted storage space, and computational bandwidth.