Show HN: MetricFlow – open-source metric framework
Hi HN community, I’m Nick, co-founder/CEO of Transform.co. I’m thrilled to share MetricFlow, an open-source metric creation framework: https://github.com/transform-data/metricflow MetricFlow strives to make what has historically been an extremely repetitive process, writing SQL queries on core normalized data models, much more DRY. MetricFlow consolidates the definitions for joins, aggregations, filters, etc., and programmatically generates SQL to construct data marts. You can think of it like LookML, but more powerful and ergonomic (and open source!). The project has three components: 1. MetricFlow Spec: The specification encapsulates metric logic in a more reusable set of abstractions: data_sources, measures, dimensions, identifiers, metrics, and materializations. 2. DataFlow Planner: The Query Planner is a generalized SQL constructor. We take in data sources (
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Hi HN community, I’m Nick, co-founder/CEO of Transform.co. I’m thrilled to share MetricFlow, an open-source metric creation framework: https://github.com/transform-data/metricflow MetricFlow strives to make what has historically been an extremely repetiti
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- nicholashandel
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews