Universal Data Library

Today we're launching Universal Data Library so you don't have to waste time modeling your data. One of the most time-consumping parts of data analytics is data engineering, and UDL automates the vast majority of data engineering tasks.

The benefit of UDL is that your data is queryable right away. No more waiting for data to be backfilled or cleaned so you can use it.

UDL has a few main benefits:

1. Automatic date and number parsing
2. Automatic joins across tables within a data source
3. Support for deeply nested data structures

For example, invoices typically have line items which is rows of nested data, and this can be hard to work with. UDL automatically unnests this data so you can query it as if it were a flat table. Another example, dates can be formated dozens of different ways across systems. Stripe stores dates as big numbers: Hubspot stores dates in ISO format. In Grapple, it just works™ and you don't have to worry about any of this. UDL did the work for you!