Compare the Top Semantic Layer Tools that integrate with SQL Server as of October 2025

This a list of Semantic Layer tools that integrate with SQL Server. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with SQL Server. View the products that work with SQL Server in the table below.

What are Semantic Layer Tools for SQL Server?

Semantic layer tools provide a unified, business-friendly view of data across multiple sources, translating complex data models into easily understandable concepts and metrics. They allow business users to query, explore, and analyze data using consistent definitions without needing deep technical knowledge of databases or query languages. These tools sit between data storage and analytics platforms, ensuring alignment and accuracy in reporting. By standardizing key metrics like revenue, customer churn, or retention, they eliminate inconsistencies across dashboards and reports. Semantic layers empower organizations to democratize data access while maintaining governance, transparency, and trust. Compare and read user reviews of the best Semantic Layer tools for SQL Server currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Timbr.ai

    Timbr.ai

    Timbr.ai

    Timbr is the ontology-based semantic layer used by leading enterprises to make faster, better decisions with ontologies that transform structured data into AI-ready knowledge. By unifying enterprise data into a SQL-queryable knowledge graph, Timbr makes relationships, metrics, and context explicit, enabling both humans and AI to reason over data with accuracy and speed. Its open, modular architecture connects directly to existing data sources, virtualizing and governing them without replication. The result is a dynamic, easily accessible model that powers analytics, automation, and LLMs through SQL, APIs, SDKs, and natural language. Timbr lets organizations operationalize AI on their data - securely, transparently, and without dependence on proprietary stacks - maximizing data ROI and enabling teams to focus on solving problems instead of managing complexity.
    Starting Price: $599/month
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    Brewit

    Brewit

    Brewit

    Make data-driven decisions 10x faster with self-service analytics. Integrate with your databases and data warehouses all-in-one place (Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, and more). Brewit can write SQL queries and create recommended charts based on your data questions. It also helps you drill down on the analysis. Chat with your database, visualize insights, & perform analysis. Ensure answer accuracy and consistency with a built-in data catalog. An automated semantic layer that ensures Brewit answers with correct business logic. Easily manage your data catalog & data dictionary. Building a beautiful report is as easy as writing a doc. Data without a story is useless. Our Notion-style notebook editor allows you to create reports & dashboards easily, turning raw data into actionable insights. All organized data products are usable by anyone who has a data question, regardless of their technical skills.
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    SSAS

    SSAS

    Microsoft

    Installed as an on-premises server instance, SQL Server Analysis Services supports tabular models at all compatibility levels (depending on version), multidimensional models, data mining, and Power Pivot for SharePoint. A typical implementation workflow includes installing a SQL Server Analysis Services instance, creating a tabular or multidimensional data model, deploying the model as a database to a server instance, processing the database to load it with data, and then assigning permissions to allow data access. When ready to go, the data model can be accessed by any client application supporting Analysis Services as a data source. Models are populated with data from external data systems, usually data warehouses hosted on a SQL Server or Oracle relational database engine (Tabular models support additional data source types).
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    BeagleGPT

    BeagleGPT

    BeagleGPT

    Proactive data and insights nudges for each user according to their usage pattern, automated heuristic rules, data updates, and user-cohort learnings. The semantic layer is finetuned for organizations with their nomenclatures and terminologies. User roles and preferences are considered while building responses for them. Advanced modules to answer how, why and so what scenarios. A single subscription covers the entire organization, truly propelling data democratization. Beagle is built to nudge you and your team toward data-driven decision-making. It is your personal data assistant that delivers all data-related updates and alerts in your message box. With in-built self-service functionalities, Beagle reduces the total cost of ownership by huge margins. Beagle connects with other dashboards to enhance their power and increase their reach in the organization.
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