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Can you please explain what the interface looks like a little more concretely?

• wenc 8y ago
  It's exactly as it sounds: a SQL view on a database server. It manifests as a SQL table backed by a query. It's mind-bendingly simple. You can connect to it via a native db connector or ODBC. It's also accessible to a wide range of tools including Excel, Tableau, or any number of programming languages. In Python you can pull data from it into a Pandas dataframe via TurbODBC (which recently added Apache Arrow in-memory support). In R, you can connect to it via dplyr. Apache Spark can get data from it via JDBC. You can experiment with it via Jupyter Notebooks. SQL support is ubiquitous.