BI Serving Pointers; Maximizing for Performance and TCO
Summary
Databricks now offers Unity Catalog Metric Views for a headless semantic layer, enabling governed business metrics across all BI tools and AI agents. Maximize performance and TCO by structuring your physical layer with star schemas, liquid clustering, and Predictive Optimization, and leverage aggregate-aware materialization for OLAP-style performance.
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