How Apache Ossie Is Deciding What Agents and BI Tools Can Ask a Semantic Layer
September 21, 2026How Apache Ossie's layered query design gives AI agents both a constrained dimensional interface and a grain-safe SQL interface for semantic layers.
How Apache Ossie's layered query design gives AI agents both a constrained dimensional interface and a grain-safe SQL interface for semantic layers.
Apache Ossie and Polaris put metric definitions in the open catalog. What the spec covers, what Polaris stores, and what is still unfinished.
Why agentic AI needs a governed semantic layer behind the Model Context Protocol: metric consistency, access control, Apache Ossie for portable definitions, and Apache Polaris for enforcement.
Metric contracts as the interface AI agents need: calculation, inclusion rules, grain, temporal semantics, ownership, semantic versioning, and testing metrics in CI.
A detailed breakdown of the five Apache projects powering the open lakehouse in 2026 -- Parquet, Iceberg, Polaris, Arrow, and Ossie -- and how to build one yourself or use a managed platform.