Close the Language Gap Between Raw Data and Data Consumers
The semantic layer sits between data consumers and data sources, presenting a business-oriented view that abstracts away the complexity of application data, accelerates analytics workloads, and provides a platform for enforcing governance and consistency.
Embrace Headless BI
AtScale enables a path to deploying a Headless BI program. Analytic models, calculated metrics, and conformed analysis dimensions are defined within the semantic layer. Data consumers using common analytics tools integrated with AtScale with native connections with no client side drivers. AtScale supports REST, JDBC, ODBC, DAX, MDX, LookML, and Python.
Semantic Modeling
AtScale approaches modeling using best practices of dimensional modeling. Leveraging a flexible modeling design center, data teams and business users can logically blend disparate data sources, design complex metrics and features, and define standard analysis dimensions like time, geography, product, etc… Published models are immediately available within the semantic layer for discovery and use by data consumers.
Multi-dimensional Calculation Engine
AtScale’s semantic layer dynamically translates analytics queries to the SQL dialect of the data store and pushes query execution down to the data platform. This approach removes the need for data extracts and ETL or for writing complicated SQL queries.
Analytics Performance Optimization
AtScale identifies the opportunity to accelerate query performance with aggregations identified based on user query behavior and HLL-generated statistics. The more data and queries seen, the smarter, faster and more efficient queries executed through the semantic layer become. This approach both accelerates analytics query performance and optimizes the use of compute resources.
Drive Analytics Governance
The AtScale semantic layer provides a platform to implement and enforce governance and access control policies. Analytics governance enables broader consumption of data assets. Furthermore, this capability enables decentralized creation of data products with centralized governance.
Live Query Connection to Cloud Data Platforms
AtScale fully leverages the power of modern cloud data platforms. Query execution and aggregate management are all pushed to the cloud platform. AtScale accelerates BI analytics performance while optimizing cloud resource consumption.
