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Google and many other companies that use Looker do something else, too, which is that they store models in source control as opposed to SQL. Models describe the
by leoh 5y ago
Google and many other companies that use Looker do something else, too, which is that they store models in source control as opposed to SQL. Models describe the schema of the database, and things like calculations, measures, rollups — which are reusable and composable.
https://docs.looker.com/data-modeling/learning-lookml/what-is-lookml https://docs.looker.com/data-modeling/learning-lookml/what-i...
- kristjansson 5y agoUsing models from your ORM of choice instead of the DDL they generate isn't that unreasonable. Suggesting that one should (or then could only?) use 'a simple API .. or UX' to actually query the database seems pretty objectionable though.
- corrius 5y agoIt locks you down to that ORM. If you are the owner of the ORM such as Google with Looker that is fine, otherwise it doesn't sounds like a good idea to me