Metadata
- Author: Valentin Leister
- Full Title:: The Semantic Layer Is Still a Mess
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Metrics Layer, Metric Trees,
- URL:: https://semanticlayer.substack.com/p/semantic-layer-is-a-mess
- Finished date:: 2024-04-14
Highlights
The semantic layer is fragmented between tools, suffers from vendor lock-in and requires duplicate encoding of business logic that is costly to maintain and causes frustration for Analytics Engineers and metric consumers alike. (View Highlight)
Recent products launched by dbt Labs and Looker aim to create a true universal semantic layer but fail due to a lack of collaboration and integration, making their adoption economically unviable for many firms. (View Highlight)