I imagine a good use case for this at its current stage would be for powering up a monitoring dashboard that runs ad-hoc queries against your operational DB. I'

I imagine a good use case for this at its current stage would be for powering up a monitoring dashboard that runs ad-hoc queries against your operational DB. I've seen this situation in a previous Fintech company I worked at, where we had some people staring at dashboards all day long looking for issues in any of the subsystems.