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I like the concept of a semantic layer, but I haven't seen strong adoption of any of them (outside of LookML within Looker). Most of the companies I've talked t
by mritchie712 3y ago
I like the concept of a semantic layer, but I haven't seen strong adoption of any of them (outside of LookML within Looker). Most of the companies I've talked to that are heavy dbt users don't use their semantic layer, but maybe that will change as the products mature!
- lmeyerov 3y agoWe are seeing similar for Louie.ai . Data catalog yes, semantic no. We are also doing a lot of non-SQL like logs DBs (SIEMs) and graph DBs, which adds even more fun to that kind of question. My hypothesis here is that "semantic layer is to semantic web as LLM + vector search over activity is to Google/pagerank": easier to let the machines figure it out. We use knowledge graphs in some of our work, so definitely not disputing the value when people do put in the effort. Wrt llmindex, the new tools like vector dbs & llmindex have been interesting. Fine-ish for our self-hosted, but most start getting tricky when a multi-tenant SaaS where we lower costs for teams and users by sharing infra yet need sharing boundaries.