Cube

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Universal semantic layer for data applications, embedded analytics, and BI tools.

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Overview

Cube sits between data stores (Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres) and applications, providing a centralized data modeling layer, caching engine, and unified SQL/REST/GraphQL API for consistent metrics.

Key Capabilities

  • Centralized code-first data modeling defining business metrics once
  • Pre-aggregation caching engine dramatically cutting cloud warehouse query costs
  • Unified access layer exposing metrics via SQL, REST, and GraphQL endpoints

Ideal Use Cases & Goals

  • “Powering customer-facing embedded analytics dashboards inside SaaS products”
  • “Standardizing revenue and retention KPI calculations across multiple BI tools”
  • “Accelerating sub-second dashboard query performance on cloud data warehouses”

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