It looks very important, popular and well established, but what is it? I looked at the README hoping to understand what a semantic layer for building data applications means but no love.
It helps data engineers and application developers access data from modern data stores, organize it into consistent definitions, and deliver it to every application. Like an ORM? Or a middleware?
> Cube was designed to work with all SQL-enabled data sources, including cloud data warehouses like Snowflake or Google BigQuery, query engines like Presto or Amazon Athena, and application databases like Postgres.
Still not getting it. Is it that it can perform a single query across multiple databases?
It helps data engineers and application developers access data from modern data stores, organize it into consistent definitions, and deliver it to every application. Like an ORM? Or a middleware?
> Cube was designed to work with all SQL-enabled data sources, including cloud data warehouses like Snowflake or Google BigQuery, query engines like Presto or Amazon Athena, and application databases like Postgres.
Still not getting it. Is it that it can perform a single query across multiple databases?