TileDB vs Looker
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TileDB is a multi-dimensional array database and data engine for genomics, geospatial, and ML workloads; open-source core with cloud SaaS platform TileDB Cloud; raised $34M Series B in 2022;
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TileDB is a data infrastructure company founded in 2017 by Stavros Papadopoulos (a former Intel and MIT researcher) and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with roots in research at Intel Labs and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). TileDB develops a multi-dimensional array database engine — the TileDB storage format and computation library — designed to handle the complex, high-dimensional datasets that arise in genomics, geospatial analysis, medical imaging, time series, and machine learning. The open-source TileDB engine stores data in a universal multi-dimensional array format that can represent structured, semi-structured, and array data natively, eliminating the need for specialized silos for each data type.
Google Cloud BI platform with LookML semantic layer ensuring consistent metric definitions across enterprises; $2.6B Google acquisition competing with Tableau and Power BI for enterprise self-service analytics.
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Looker is a business intelligence and data analytics platform now part of Google Cloud — providing the LookML data modeling language, self-service exploration tools, embedded analytics, and natural language querying capabilities that enable data teams to define metrics once and make them available consistently across the organization. Founded in 2012 in Santa Cruz, California by Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield, Looker was acquired by Google for $2.6 billion in 2019 and has been integrated into Google Cloud as the primary BI platform alongside Google Looker Studio (formerly Data Studio).
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