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I like the idea of a semantic Layer but don't think defining it in yaml is the right way to go about it. Semantic Layer needs proper language and tooling suppo

by aszen 1y ago

I like the idea of a semantic Layer but don't think defining it in yaml is the right way to go about it. Semantic Layer needs proper language and tooling support which Malloy provides.

kermatt 1y ago
Anything but a markup language / JSON.
12ian34 1y ago
are you using Malloy in prod? Do you know of anyone? I remember the Malloy hype during Data Council in 2023. Haven't heard about it since.
- apwell23 1y ago
  i think the team moved on from google ( which was the main benefactor)
- aszen 1y ago
  Not yet, but it's evolving nicely, the original team moved to meta and they are building interesting open source stuff
articsputnik 1y ago
Yeah, we still have them, MDX before and now DAX :) I curate some more on here in case of interest: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/data-modeling-languages https://www.ssp.sh/brain/data-modeling-languages.
- efromvt 1y ago
  MDX really did it well, at the cost of being impenetrable to the average user - the drilldown flow you could get is still hard to beat. Shameless plug for the list, though - I work on https://github.com/trilogy-data/pytrilogy https://github.com/trilogy-data/pytrilogy - semantic layer directly embedded in otherwise (mostly) SQL syntax. I'll do an equivalent example on the taxi dataset when I have some time.
- 12ian34 1y ago
  oh nice resource! Another one for you: https://docs.lightdash.com/guides/lightdash-semantic-layer#lightdash-semantic-layer https://docs.lightdash.com/guides/lightdash-semantic-layer#l...