GoodData, a cloud-based data and analytics platform, has released FlexQuery, a foundational component of its business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform.
FlexQuery is GoodData’s commitment to providing open, powerful tools for data developers and is an important cornerstone of the future transformation vision of enhanced analytics and BI.
FlexQuery is a composable data services layer that leverages popular open source technologies such as Apache Arrow and Iceberg. With FlexQuery, users can save costs through high-performance caching, agile transformation and federation of data, and building with the best open source tools.
With FlexQuery, GoodData can provide:
- Save costs and improve performance: FlexQuery optimizes query performance and reduces the load on data warehousing, thereby significantly saving the cost of the underlying cloud data architecture.
- Enhanced data accessibility: FlexQuery Built-in transformation and union capabilities simplify data integration across applications via SQL or API. The ability to materialize data in memory or disk, query it on the fly from a database, or mix modes provides greater flexibility.
- Flexibility and openness: FlexQuery is a composable data services layer that can efficiently handle large amounts of data. It is built on open source tools and allows users to create customized solutions for various data-related tasks using pluggable modules.
- Eliminate data tool spread: FlexQuery not only supports building traditional BI dashboards, but also supports native support for Jupyter Notebooks and any other Python-based ML tools.
FlexQuery now forms the operational core of the GoodData Analytics Lake concept, integrating data, metadata, models and reports into a single platform. This integration simplifies the creation and management of analytics applications, accessible through a variety of interfaces including Python, React, SQL, and more.
“The FlexQuery and Analytics Lake concepts mark the evolution of BI platforms to embrace the complexities of modern data development,” said Ryan Dolley, vice president of product at GoodData. “With FlexQuery’s analytics engine, GoodData delivers the world’s most powerful, flexible and efficient BI platform.”
Explore the power of FlexQuery and revolutionize your data journey at www.gooddata.com/platform/flexquery/
About good data
GoodData is the leading cloud-based data and analytics platform that brings AI-powered data-driven decisions to organizations around the world. With a platform that leverages the full potential of automation and artificial intelligence, GoodData enables customers to deliver data analytics to every end-user through real-time, self-service data insights as they work. More than 140,000 of the world’s top companies and 3.2 million users rely on GoodData to drive meaningful change and achieve more with data. GoodData is headquartered in San Francisco and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners, Intel Capital, TOTVS and others. For more information, visit the GoodData website and follow GoodData on LinkedIn, YouTube, Medium and Twitter Twitter.
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