Strata launches as an expressive semantic layer designed to provide governed, high-performance Business Intelligence for the AI age. Built at Netflix and ready for enterprise use, Strata offers a unified platform combining a governed semantic layer, self-service dashboards, agent-grounded analytics, and open federated OLAP engines.
The platform features partition-aware semantic routing across hot, warm, and cold data tiers — ClickHouse and Druid for hot tiers, Snowflake for warm, and AWS Athena for cold — delivering sub-second query responses and reduced warehouse costs. Clients route through Strata's semantic layer for optimized performance across all tiers.
Strata differentiates itself as the only product combining governance with beautiful self-service analytics. Unlike dbt, Metric Flow, Cube, or Snowflake Semantic Views that hand users models, Strata hands users answers. The platform supports headless consumption with bring-your-own-BI-tool flexibility.
A customer story highlights a global entertainment company's customer service organization that scaled from 800 non-technical users across internal teams and BPO partners. Self-serve usage grew from a handful per week to hundreds, reducing ad-hoc data requests by 90% and cutting partner onboarding to 10 minutes. A Customer Service Product Manager noted: "You took the complexity of Tableau and smashed it down to nothing."
Strata deploys in 15 minutes via Docker and coding agents, offering immediate access to warehouse insights.
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