## Metadata - Author: [[Valentin Leister]] - Full Title:: The Semantic Layer Is Still a Mess - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Metrics layer]], [[Metric trees]], - URL:: https://semanticlayer.substack.com/p/semantic-layer-is-a-mess - Finished date:: [[2024-04-14]] ## Highlights > The semantic layer is fragmented between tools, suffers from vendor lock-in and requires duplicate encoding of business logic that is costly to maintain and causes frustration for Analytics Engineers and metric consumers alike. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hvdncckp7d13g7nh8zs3jrqy)) > Recent products launched by dbt Labs and Looker aim to create a true universal semantic layer but fail due to a lack of collaboration and integration, making their adoption economically unviable for many firms. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hvdncej6sffw0nt36q8mvjss))