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DEV-2019: semantic-layer comparison suite and matrix (SLayer, Malloy, Cube Core, MetricFlow) - #459
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…ricFlow); fix stale dbt comparison docs examples/comparisons/: one shared dataset and probes.yaml, one runner per engine, each probe checked against hand-written DuckDB SQL; README with scope rules and upstream issue links. docs/dbt: the semi-additive example referenced a nonexistent stage column (balance_last -> balance_last_snapshot_date), and the rolling-window sections still claimed SLayer has no trailing windows.
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…the virtual-model rule
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…time-axis-across' into egor/dev-2019-comparison-suite-time-spine-probes-shared-axis-across-facts
…cross engines; typed PartitionKeyError for an expression partition_by Adds a returns fact and sub-hour events to the dataset, wires them into every engine, and probes the shared time axis, gap filling, custom granularities, relative time filters and saved-query refinement. Fixes the Malloy runner's silent 10-row cap. partition_by=month(order_date) now raises a typed PartitionKeyError naming the expression instead of a bare ValueError naming an internal class.
…shared-time-axis-across' into egor/dev-2019-comparison-suite-time-spine-probes-shared-axis-across-facts
…Cube graded on Tesseract Adds docs/comparisons/semantic_layers.md (SLayer, Malloy, Cube Core, MetricFlow) with a generator that keeps its glance tables, scorecard and probe links in sync with probes.yaml, guarded by a unit test. Adds SLayer probes for calendar expressions, renumbers the C rows after dropping the Supersimple-only row, rewords the cube#282 and cube#12025 notes, and fixes the SLayer runner treating an error-only known-bug signature as reproduced by a result.
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. 0 included reviews remain after this review. Your included PR review attempts over the past 7 days set your current allowance at 2 reviews per hour. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a comparison suite for SLayer, Cube Core, Malloy, and MetricFlow. The suite includes shared data, engine models and runners, a comparison matrix, and documentation. Also updates dbt import guidance, changes errors for invalid partition expressions, and changes how idle database connections are released. ChangesSemantic-layer comparison suite
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The matrix now lives in examples/comparisons/matrix.yaml and is rendered as one styled table (scorecard, legend, verdict pills, leaders, collapsible per-row probe links); the page's markdown keeps only the prose. Styles move to docs/stylesheets/comparisons.css via extra_css, scoped with :has(.slm), so GitHub's file view shows a plain table with emoji verdicts instead of leaked CSS.
…ite page export_matrix.py (was update_comparison_doc.py) renders matrix.yaml with each row's probe links into examples/comparisons/matrix.json, which motley-website's /semantic-layer-comparison page renders; tests/test_comparison_matrix.py keeps it in sync. The docs page shrinks to a pointer, and the docs stylesheet and extra_css go away.
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- Around line 255-266: Update _get to catch network failures from urlopen and
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- Runners fail an empty result that lacks a requested column (columns from the result schema / Cube annotation, Malloy flattened columns included); a known buggy error no longer passes on a different error. - Cube: stop the server when startup fails; HTTP and connection errors become probe errors. SLayer: cleanup deletes only the models it saved and never masks the probe's error. - Split evaluate/main in every runner to cut cognitive complexity. - run_all.sh reinstalls node deps when the lockfile changes; Malloy installs with --ignore-scripts. - export_matrix: only http(s) and site-relative links; reject probes on rows missing from matrix.yaml. - Sonar: skip the PL/SQL analyzer on the suite's DuckDB/dbt .sql files.
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- Sonar: automatic analysis reads .sonarcloud.properties, not sonar-project.properties; exclude the suite's DuckDB/dbt .sql files there. - Malloy: a flatten field missing from the result is a per-probe config FAIL. - Split the remaining over-complex evaluate helpers.
… probes Six rows from SLayer's own highlighted features beyond query semantics: built-in MCP server, agent memories, smart retrieval, auto-ingestion, runtime model editing and schema drift handling. The SLayer runner gains steps probes (MCP tool calls and SQL edits on a private database copy) to verify them; the dataset declares its foreign keys for ingestion. C7 and Q19 drop the features now covered by the new rows.
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🟡 Minor · Add the Cube-JS exclusion to the Automatic Analysis configuration. · sonar-project.properties:25-28
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAdd the Cube-JS exclusion to the Automatic Analysis configuration.
.sonarcloud.propertiesdeclares that Automatic Analysis reads that file, while the Cube-JS suppression exists only insonar-project.properties. Automatic Analysis therefore does not apply this suppression and may report fixture findings. If the exclusion is CI-only, document that scope; otherwise add an equivalent setting supported by Automatic Analysis. (SonarQube Cloud documentation)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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…shared engines Ingestion and the drift probe disposed engine_factory's shared cached engine to free DuckDB file handles. A connection another caller had checked out was then re-pooled into the orphaned old pool and only closed by GC: the intermittent 3.14 'unclosed database' CI failure, and a breach of the one-engine-owner axiom. engine_factory.release_idle() now closes only a QueuePool's idle connections, keeping the pool (in-memory pools are left alone). The resource-ownership law gains a dispose concern: production .dispose() only in the engine owners. Also from review: probe sessions report setup failures as errors and close the setup engine; the Cube-JS fixture exclusion moves to .sonarcloud.properties, which automatic analysis reads.
test_query_missing_datasource never awaited storage.save_model, so it never saved its model; the unused yaml_storage fixture never awaited save_datasource and is deleted. A dropped async result is a silently skipped call, so it is now gated twice: a serial CI step runs basedpyright's reportUnusedCoroutine over slayer/, tests/ and examples/ with no baseline (too memory-hungry for an xdist worker), and pyproject filterwarnings turn the runtime 'never awaited' warning into a test failure. tests/test_law_unawaited_coroutines.py pins both.
… Python 3.11 Replaces the coroutine-only basedpyright step: the full check against the committed baseline costs the same (the type model dominates, ~3 GB / ~30 s), runs in parallel with the unit tests, and enforces the ratchet the /la:pr review loop already applies locally. It subsumes the unawaited-coroutine gate: the law test now pins the job and that the baseline holds no reportUnusedCoroutine entry. pythonVersion = 3.11 (the oldest supported) flags newer-only stdlib APIs and keeps results identical across interpreters; it surfaced help_seed's files(__package__), which needs 3.12.
Sonar flagged the new type-check job's unpinned `pip install poetry` (S8541, S8544) and `poetry install` running setup scripts (S8541); every workflow repeated the same setup. .github/actions/poetry-env now does it once: setup-python, poetry==2.4.1 from wheels only, a venv cache keyed on Python, poetry.lock and the install args, and `poetry install`. The install keeps source builds (NOSONAR): clickhouse-sqlalchemy and esprima ship only sdists, and poetry.lock hash-pins every artifact. Used by ci.yml, the integration and pg-facade workflows (whose path filters now include the action) and both publish workflows. Also: run_slayer.py names its DB file once (S1192).
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Summary
A reproducible probe suite comparing SLayer with Malloy, Cube Core and MetricFlow, and the feature matrix behind the motley.ai post Four open-source semantic layers, 54 capabilities (MotleyAI/motley-website#72), with links to every probe and every upstream bug.
What's in it
examples/comparisons/, the probe suite:one DuckDB dataset with deliberate edge cases, a second fact (
returns), sub-hourevents, and declared foreign keys;359 probes, each checked against hand-written SQL, an expected error, or expected output;
a runner per engine, plus
run_all.sh;probes for the time spine, custom granularities, relative time filters (with a pinned clock), saved-query refinement and calendar expressions;
MCP-session probes for SLayer's agent tooling (rows C26–C31): each runs MCP tool calls, and SQL edits for schema drift, on a private copy of the database. They cover the built-in MCP server, memories, search, auto-ingestion, runtime model editing and drift handling. The embedding search channel is off, so they run offline.
Current results; none fail:
examples/comparisons/matrix.yaml: the feature matrix, 54 rows (verdicts, examples and comments per row).export_matrix.pyrenders it, with each row's probe links, intomatrix.json, which the motley.ai post renders.tests/test_comparison_matrix.pyfails ifmatrix.jsondrifts frommatrix.yamlorprobes.yaml.Type-check CI job + unawaited-coroutine law:
test_query_missing_datasourcenever awaitedstorage.save_model(so it never saved its model), and the unusedyaml_storagefixture never awaitedsave_datasource(deleted). A new paralleltype-checkCI job runs the fullbasedpyrightagainst the committed ratchet baseline, enforcing in CI what the /la:pr review loop applies locally. It's pinned topythonVersion = "3.11", the oldest supported version, which surfacedhelp_seed'sfiles(__package__)(needs 3.12, now fixed).pyproject.tomlfilterwarningsturns the runtime "never awaited" warning into a test failure, andtests/test_law_unawaited_coroutines.pypins the job, a baseline with noreportUnusedCoroutineentries, and the runtime gate.One Poetry setup for every workflow (
.github/actions/poetry-env):setup-python,poetry==2.4.1installed from wheels only, a venv cache keyed on Python,poetry.lockand the install args, thenpoetry install. Used byci.yml, the integration and pg-facade workflows (whose path filters now include the action) and both publish workflows. It fixes Sonar's S8541/S8544. The install keeps source builds (NOSONAR) becauseclickhouse-sqlalchemyandesprimaship only sdists;poetry.lockhash-pins every artifact.slayer/engine/binding.py:partition_by=month(order_date)(or any expression) now raises a typedPartitionKeyErrornaming the expression. It used to raise a bareValueErrornaming an internal key class. Test added; the two pinned-message cases were updated with approval.docs/dbt/slayer_vs_dbt.md,docs/dbt/dbt_import.md:window=;Test plan
poetry run pytest -m "not integration"(27,509 passed)poetry run ruff check slayer/ tests/ examples/comparisons/poetry run basedpyright(full, Python 3.11): no new errors vs the baselineuvx zensical build: no issues