Databases are the lifeblood of many organizations, holding massive amounts of critical business data and carrying out hundreds of thousands of transactions per day. From early on, Looker’s vision was that not only would databases get faster and cheaper due to improvements in technology, but that more vendors would also enter the market. Due to this evolving landscape, companies would be able to choose the databases that best suited their needs. This early vision led Looker to invest heavily in supporting a wide variety of databases as quickly as possible. Looker was one of the first BI tools to support Snowflake, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift Spectrum, and Google BigQuery. A core part of the platform’s value is its ability to give our customers the freedom of choice—something

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