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HYBRID ANALYTICS
Best of both worlds
Keep operational data where it lives — on-prem MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server. Join it with cloud warehouse data from Snowflake or Databricks. DuckDB federates the query locally. No data leaves your network unless you want it to.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
A hospital system joins on-prem Oracle EHR data with Snowflake claims analytics. Patient data never leaves the on-prem network — only aggregated insights materialize to the cloud.
DATA FLOW
WHAT ENABLES THIS
THE FEDERATION ENGINE →
the join executes locally in DuckDB — raw rows from each side never visit the other
SOURCES.YML & META.CONNECTION →
each source binds to its own connection; one model reads both worlds
PER-MODEL TARGETS →
config(target=...) decides which results land in the cloud and which stay home
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