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For anyone who is not familiar with Looker, I wrote a write-up and review about it here https://www.holistics.io/blog/looker-review-and-breakdown/. Here are the key points:

- Its use of LookML provides a steep learning curve, yet provides a maintainable and reusable data modeling

- Looker's drill-down ability is decently powerful and easy to use once you are familiar with LookML.

- Looker does not have its own storage layer but instead relies on customer's data warehouses

- Looker, in essence, is a SQL query builder engine that converts business users' drag-and-drop inputs into SQL queries.

- Looker provides highly flexible and sophisticated access control and permission management, sacrificing simplicity for power.

- Looker has limited data preparation capabilities compared to other tools, delegating this task to its partners to provide these capabilities.