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lightdash
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Apache Superset
> YAML, pivoting being done in the frontend, no symmetric aggregates
(one of the maintainers of Lightdash) You touched on some of our most interesting problems here! Would be especially interested to hear about what you liked / didn't like about symmetric aggregates in Looker and how you find dev with YAML. If you have an idea of how you'd like these to look in Lightdash, the team would be really open to making that a reality.
For pivoting in the backend, this is coming! Issue here: https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash/issues/2907
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What are the 5 hottest dbt Repositories one should star on GitHub 2022?
What are the 5 hottest dbt Repositories one should star on Github 2022?
dbt is a software framework that sits in the middle of the ELT process. It represents the transformative layer after loading data from an original source. Dbt combines SQL with software engineering principles.
Here are my top5!
- Lightdash (https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash): Lightdash converts dbt models and makes it possible to define and easily visualize additional metrics via a visual interface.
- ⏎ re_data (https://github.com/re-data/re-data): Re-Data is an abstraction layer that helps users monitor dbt projects and their underlying data. For example, you get alerts when a test failed or a data anomaly occurs in a dbt project.
- evidence (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence): Evidence is another tool for lightweight BI reporting. With Evidence, you can build simple reports in "medium style" using SQL queries and Markdown.
- Kuwala (https://github.com/kuwala-io/kuwala): With Kuwala, a BI analyst can intuitively build advanced data workflows using a drag-drop interface on top of the modern data stack without coding. Behind the Scenes, the dbt models are generated so that a more experienced engineer can customize the pipelines at any time.
- fal ai (https://github.com/fal-ai/fal): Fal helps to run Python scripts directly from the dbt project. For example, you can load dbt models directly into the Python context which helps to apply Data Science libraries like SKlearn and Prophet in the dbt models.
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What are the hottest dbt Repositories you should star on Github 2022? - Here are mine.
Lightdash ( https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash ) Lightdash converts dbt models and makes it possible to define and easily visualize additional metrics via a visual interface. The front end helps to understand and extend the underlying SQL queries. Lightdash also visualizes business metrics and makes them shareable with the data team. It is also possible to integrate all data into another visualization tool.
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What are your hottest dbt repositories in 2022 so far? Here are mine!
- ⚡️ Lightdash: Lightdash converts dbt models and makes it possible to define and easily visualize additional metrics via a visual interface.
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Data pipeline suggestions
Visualization / Analysis: Lightdash, Superset
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Where can I find free data engineering ( big data) projects online?
Ingestion / ETL: Airbyte, Singer, Jitsu Transformation: dbt Orchestration: Airflow, Dagster Testing: GreatExpectations Observability: Monosi Reverse ETL: Grouparoo, Castled Visualization: Lightdash, Superset
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Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data
1) An integration with Metabase Cloud is on our roadmap for Q1! We'd love to integrate with Lightdash, but they don't have a public API just yet[1].
2) Several of our customers use us to alert on schema changes in Postgres, specifically so they can get ahead of application database changes that will end up in the warehouse, so you're definitely not alone! Here's a link on how to connect postgres: https://docs.metaplane.dev/docs/postgres
That's an excellent stack and one we kept front and center when building out Metaplane, so definitely let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions here!
[1]: https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash/issues/632
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what's your experience with Looker ?
I would recommend lightdash which is essentially an open source Looker clone https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash
- a full semantic model based on dbt, dimensions, joins and metrics
- An open source alternative to Looker built using dbt. Made for analysts
cube.js
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MQL – Client and Server to query your DB in natural language
I should have clarified. There's a large number of apps that are:
1. taking info strictly from SQL (e.g. information_schema, query history)
2. taking a user input / question
3. writing SQL to answer that question
An app like this is what I call "text-to-sql". Totally agree a better system would pull in additional documentation (which is what we're doing), but I'd no longer consider it "text-to-sql". In our case, we're not even directly writing SQL, but rather generating semantic layer queries (i.e. https://cube.dev/).
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Show HN: Spice.ai – materialize, accelerate, and query SQL data from any source
I'm not too familiar with https://cube.dev/ - but my initial impression is they are focused more on providing APIs backed by SQL. They have a SQL API that emulates the PostgreSQL wire protocol, whereas Spice implements Arrow and Flight SQL natively. Their pre-aggregations are a similar concept to Spice's data accelerators. It also looks like they have their own query language, whereas Spice is native SQL as well.
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Show HN: Delphi – Build customer-facing AI data apps (that work)
Hey HN!
Over the past year, my co-founder David and I have been building Delphi to let developers create amazing customer-facing AI experiences on top of their data. We're excited to share it with you.
David and I have spent our careers leading data and engineering teams. After ChatGPT got popular, we saw a rush of "chat with your data" startups launch. Most of these are "text-to-SQL" and use an LLM like GPT-4 to generate SQL queries that run directly against a data warehouse or database.
However, the general perception now is most of them make for nice demos but are hard to make work in the real world. The reason is data complexity. Even smart LLMs find it difficult to reason about messy databases with hundreds of tables, thousands of columns, and complex schemas that have been built up piece-meal for years. Text-to-SQL can be a fine dev tool for data scientists and analysts, but we've seen many organizations hesitate to deploy it to end users, who never know if the answer they get one day will be the same the next.
David and I found a better way. From our time in the data engineering world, we were familiar with a type of tool called "semantic layers." Think of them like an ORM for analytics. Basically, they sit between databases (or data warehouses) and data consumers (data viz tools like Tableau or APIs) and map real-world concepts (entities like "customers" and metrics like "sales") to database tables and calculations.
Semantic layers are often used for "embedded analytics" (e.g. when you're building customer-facing dashboards into your application) but are increasingly also used for traditional business intelligence. Cube (https://cube.dev) is a prominent example, and dbt has also recently released one. They're useful because with a semantic layer, the consumer doesn't have to think about questions like "how do we define revenue?" when running a query. They just get consistent, governed data definitions across their business.
We realized that semantic layers could be just as useful for LLMs as for humans. After all, LLMs are built on natural language, so a system that deterministically translates natural language concepts into code has obvious power when you're working with LLMs. With a semantic layer, we've found that companies can get AI to answer much more complex questions than without it.
For a year now, we've been building Delphi to do just that. We've gone through a few iterations/pivots (initially we were focused on building a Slack bot for internal analytics) and are now seeing our developer-first approach resonate. We're being used to power customer-facing fintech applications, recruiting software, and more.
How do you use Delphi? The first step is connecting your database; then, we build your semantic layer on top of it. Right now we do this manually, but we're moving more and more of it over to AI. Once that's done, we have 3 main ways of using Delphi: 1) white-labeling our AI analytics platform and providing it to your customers; 2) a streaming REST API and SDKs; and 3) React components to easily drop a "chat with your data" experience into your app.
If this is interesting to you, drop us a line at [email protected] or sign up at our website (https://delphihq.com) to get in touch. Thanks for reading! Would love to hear any thoughts and feedback.
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Apache Superset
We use https://cube.dev/ as intermediate layer between data warehouse database and Superset (and other "terminal" apps for BI like report generators). You define your schema (metrics, dimensions, joins, calculated metrics etc) in cube and then access them by any tool that can connect to SQL db
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Need to reduce costs - which service to use?
also check out cube.dev. they can do the semantic layer and cache it so you are not hitting Snowflake all the time.
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Anyone with experience moving to Cube.dev + Metabase/Superset from Looker ?
We need metrics to live in source control with reviews. Metabase doesn't have a git integration for metrics, which is why we are convinced to use cube.dev as a semantic layer.
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GigaOm Sonar Report Reviews Semantic Layer and Metric Store Vendors
https://github.com/cube-js/cube comes out very well at the end as a promising open source system, getting rather close to the bullseye. Would love to know more & hear people's experience with it.
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Show HN: VulcanSQL – Serve high-concurrency, low-latency API from OLAP
How is this different from something like https://cube.dev/
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Best Headless Chart Library?
Have a look to cube.js
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Advice / Questions on Modern Data Stack
For now, I've been thinking on using self-hosted Rudderstack both for ingestion and reverse ETL, cube.dev as the abstraction later for building webapps and providing catching for the BI layer, and dbt for transformations. But I have doubts with the following elements:
What are some alternatives?
Metabase - The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company :yum:
Apache Superset - Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform [Moved to: https://github.com/apache/superset]
superset - Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Rakam - 📈 Collect customer event data from your apps. (Note that this project only includes the API collector, not the visualization platform)
Druid - Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.
trino_data_mesh - Proof of concept on how to gain insights with Trino across different databases from a distributed data mesh
Redash - Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize, dashboard and share your data.
elementary - The dbt-native data observability solution for data & analytics engineers. Monitor your data pipelines in minutes. Available as self-hosted or cloud service with premium features.
streamlit - Streamlit — A faster way to build and share data apps.
metriql - The metrics layer for your data. Join us at https://metriql.com/slack