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Define shared business metrics and serve them to analytics tools through APIs.

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What you can use it for

Define shared business metrics and serve them to analytics tools through APIs.

  • Centralized code-first data modeling (data models, dimensions, and measures in code).
  • Built-in pre-aggregation caching layer accelerating query speeds up to 100x.
  • Connects seamlessly to Superset, Metabase, Tableau, and custom apps via SQL/REST/GraphQL APIs.
Workflow coverage and comparison notes

Open-source universal semantic layer providing metrics definition, pre-aggregations, and caching without Looker’s multi-thousand dollar monthly commitments.

Before you switch

Headless semantic engine rather than an end-user dashboarding UI; must pair with a visualization frontend like Superset or Metabase.

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