Sigma vs.
Looker
Considering Looker? Look Again.
Sigma delivers true self-service ad hoc analytics—no LookML or SQL Required.

DATA-DRIVEN BUSINESSES USE SIGMA FOR FAST, EASY, AND POWERFUL ANALYTICS





















Sigma vs.
Looker
Feeling the LookML blues?
- Low adoption
- Model bloat
- dbt redundancies
Sigma delivers true self-service analytics—no LookML required.
Sigma
- Empowers self-service analytics in a governed familiar UI: the spreadsheet.
- Frees data and BI teams from managing an additional model on top of dbt.
- Enables business users to freely drill down to row level data at massive scale.
- CSAT: 4.8. Real-time dedicated in-app support for your entire organization in minutes. 30-min dedicated office hours over Zoom to all accounts.
Looker
- Requires knowledge of proprietary, developer focused LookML language.
- Models are high maintenance. Looker creates a redundant metadata layer on top of dbt.
- Business users resort to exporting to Excel.
- No dedicated technical support unless purchased separately.
Real time support in minutes, not days
Why Companies Choose Sigma Over Looker
A Language and Interface Teams Already Know and Love
Whether data experts know spreadsheets or SQL, Looker requires learning their proprietary language, LookML. In contrast, Sigma gives analysts the option to leverage their existing expertise, saving time, resources and ensuring adoption. Sigma gives everyone—including non-technical users—the ability to query the data warehouse directly using an intuitive spreadsheet UI with familiar formulas and functions.
Flexible Data Curation with Zero Pre-Modeling Required
With Looker, data must be extensively modeled using LookML before business users can access it. Even when similar transformation has already been performed with tools like dbt. Sigma’s spreadsheet experience allows even non-technical users to freely explore, calculate, filter, and sort through billions of rows of data directly in the cloud data warehouse with no modeling required. Users can also endorse and curate datasets for collaborative analytics on trusted data.
Ad Hoc Cloud Data Exploration Puts Answers at The User’s Fingertips
Because Looker locks data access behind proprietary code and predefined paths, business teams are forced to wait in request queues or turn to risky, outdated data extracts to get the answers they need. Sigma’s spreadsheet UI empowers any user to query billions of rows of live data down to the lowest level of detail to find answers to critical questions in real time—no coding, pre-modeling, or extracts required.
Explore our Customer Stories
Additional Resources
We are Sigma.
Sigma is a cloud-native analytics platform that uses a familiar spreadsheet interface to give business users instant access to explore and get insights from their cloud data warehouse. It requires no code or special training to explore billions of rows, augment with new data, or perform “what if” analysis on all data in real-time.