Google BigQuery in Polar: your models, governed and blended.
Point Polar at the datasets in your Google BigQuery lakehouse and their columns become governed metrics and dimensions, blended with Shopify, Meta and Google and served to every dashboard, report and AI answer. Read-only is enough, and no one has to write SQL to use the models your data team already built.
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Google BigQuery holds the models. Polar makes everyone use them.
Your data team modeled KPIs and cost logic in Google BigQuery, but using them still means SQL or an analyst request. Polar turns those models into governed metrics the whole team can use, blended with your stack.
Google BigQuery on its own
- Using a model means SQL or an analyst ticket.
- Lakehouse metrics live apart from marketing and revenue.
- Definitions drift between the lakehouse and dashboards.
- AI can't reason on models without bespoke pipes.
Google BigQuery with Polar
- Modeled columns become governed metrics, no SQL.
- Blended with Shopify, Meta and Google in one layer.
- One definition, served everywhere the same way.
- Governed metrics available over the Polar MCP.
Expose Google BigQuery as a governed source.
A Polar account with Shopify
A Polar account with Shopify connected. This connector plugs in right next to your stack.
Connect your data →A read-only Google BigQuery role
A read-only role Polar can query, and the tables or models you want to expose.
Open Google BigQuery →The Polar team to map it
The AI data engineer maps your datasets into the semantic layer so columns become governed metrics.
Grant a read-only role talk to Polar
Map to the semantic layer built for you
Use it everywhere the payoff
The models your data team built, used by everyone.
Grant a read-only role, point Polar at your datasets, and let the semantic layer turn them into governed metrics.
The connector is only half of it.
Google BigQuery
Polar
Ask Polar
Polar MCP
Scheduled reports
The lakehouse, without the SQL tax.
The models your data team built in Google BigQuery are good; the problem is access, every use is a SQL query or an analyst ticket, and the definition drifts between the lakehouse and the slide. Polar reads your datasets over a read-only role and resolves their columns into your semantic layer, so a modeled KPI becomes a governed metric that behaves like Net Sales or Blended CAC, blended with Shopify, Meta and Google, and answering to Ask Polar and the Polar MCP, without re-modeling or a second pipeline.
Read-only, no writes. Polar queries a read-only role and never writes back to your lakehouse.
One governed definition. Modeled columns resolve into the semantic layer, the same everywhere.
Ask Polar, in plain language. “Show my modeled contribution margin by channel next to revenue.” No SQL, no export.
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Your models, used by everyone.
Grant a read-only role, let Polar map your Google BigQuery datasets into the semantic layer, and use your modeled metrics everywhere, blended and without SQL.
