Comment by CaveTech
4 days ago
In simplest of terms, it's a templating and orchestration layer for data pipelines which which compiles purely into SQL expressions.
4 days ago
In simplest of terms, it's a templating and orchestration layer for data pipelines which which compiles purely into SQL expressions.
How is it different from Looker and LookML?
Looker is mostly a reporting tool. LookML let's you define some transformations that happen at query time. There is a little bit of materialization functionality with the PDTs, but that doesn't seem intended as a replacement for other "ELT" tools.