3.0 vs 4.0: Feature Comparison
Introduction
This page gives a high-level highlight on the difference between Holistics 3.0 and Holistics 4.0.
Feature Comparisons
Since there are major architectural change in 4.0, not all features in 3.0 have been ported over to 4.0 yet. This table provides a brief overview of the key differences/gaps between them.
| Holistics Version | ||
| ⭐️ Analytics As-Code: Define models and reports using code | ✅ | ❌ |
| ⭐️ Git Version Control: Check code into Git. Develop in branches & create pull requests. | ✅ Learn more | ❌ |
| ⭐️ Integration with dbt | ✅ Learn more | ❌ |
| ⭐️ AMQL: Our experimental metrics-centric query language. | ⚙️ Working on | ❌ |
| ⭐️ Query Parameters: Support passing user inputs into model's SQL definitions at run-time. | ✅ Learn more | ❌ |
| Data Imports: Load data into SQL database | ❌ Deprecated. See Note 1 below. | ✅ |
| Modeling Experience | ||
| Automatic Relationship Creation | ❌ | ✅ See Automatic Relationship Creation from Database |
| Transform Persistence | ✅ ⭐️ Support flow-based | ✅ Time-based only |
| Model Dependency: Allow users to delete a model (or dataset) even if it has dependencies | ✅ Learn more | ❌ |
| User Experience (UX) | ||
| Auto-update modeling fields after changing the SQL definition | ✅ | ✅ |
| UI to edit and run SQL model | ✅ See release notes here. | ✅ |
| UI to edit and run Persistence | 🚧 On roadmap. | ✅ |
Notes
1. Holistics 4.0 will not support Extract & Load (EL) use cases. We recommend using dedicated EL tools like Fivetran, Airbyte and StitchData, etc. instead.