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Before you downvote me, these are not mine words but actually from a Looker engineer I asked to summarize the product. I don't know how accurate the quote is, but it stuck with me.
Also, congrats to the team I guess. Is an acquisition an accomplishment or just a decision?
I'm a huge fan of Looker, but I'm not sure how I feel about this news. The best parts of Looker: - It connects directly to your existing data warehouse. Most BI tools suck in your data into their datastore; Looker queries your database directly. If you wanted Looker to cache results for performance reasons, you could set up a dedicated schema in Redshift for example and only give write privileges to that one schema.…
Smart move. Google wants to own the entire data infrastructure. Alooma (acquired in February) gets your data from various sources into BigQuery, then all the analysis is done in Looker. Unfortunate news for non-Looker users: Supposedly Alooma stopped supporting Redshift and Snowflake integrations following the acquisition, since those compete with BigQuery. If you're using Looker with Redshift or Snowflake you should…
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/announ...
I can talk a lot about it if anyone is interested.
- https://training.looker.com/
- https://discourse.looker.com/Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would definitely help Santa Cruz’s rental market
It would definitely revitalize the coast. But at what price? Can you imagine the gridlock on State Highway 17 (and the Pac HWY)? If I sat in the governator’s office, I’d push for a commuter line from the South Bay to St Cruz. That would be so much more beneficial than the HSR to no-where we wasted 70 billion on.
I'm curious to see how Google handle acquiring a company which requires some fairly high touch sales. Looker is a fantastic tool, but its not something which is useful from day one, and at least currently has a high enough price tag attached to it that they involve a lot of sales engineering in getting new customers to a point where they're able to query data they care about.
They don’t have a price on their website. Can anyone here provide what price points a medium-large company is looking(no pun intended) at?
"Looker -- SQL for Dummies" Before you downvote me, these are not mine words but actually from a Looker engineer I asked to summarize the product. I don't know how accurate the quote is, but it stuck with me. Also, congrats to the team I guess. Is an acquisition an accomplishment or just a decision?