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Comment by seektable

It looks like MetricFlow shines in constructing SQL queries on-demand, which means that it should be directly used by a BI tool, am I right with this?.. Generation of the static SQL (with CLI) for each report doesn't seem very usable on practice.

In other words, BI tools needs to have a special connector that automatically utilizes MetricFlow Python API (or CLI). What BI tools already can use MetricFlow in this way (open-source part of the project)?

Actually I'm asking about that as a BI tool vendor. We have added an ability to use custom connectors (web API) so potentially this kind of connector can use MetricFlow for SQL generation.

parent seektable 4 years ago

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