Cut Text2SQL token costs up to 81%, and stop paying for wrong answers: a Neo4j semantic layer across BigQuery and Databricks

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Across two deliberately hostile catalogs (278 Census tables on BigQuery and 264 legacy tables on Databricks), a Neocarta semantic layer in Neo4j makes Text2SQL agents faster, cheaper, and more accurate. On Census it cut tokens up to 81% while lifting… Read more →

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