🚀 elevata v0.9.0 — Bizcore: Business Semantics as First-Class Metadata

This release introduces Bizcore, a dedicated layer for modeling
business meaning, rules, and calculations as first-class metadata.

Bizcore fundamentally extends elevata from a technical transformation engine
into a business-capable, metadata-native data platform core.

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✨ Highlights

• Metadata-driven Bizcore datasets

  • Explicit modeling of business concepts and rules
  • Deterministic execution through the standard pipeline
  • Full lineage and explainability from Core inputs

• Multi-source Bizcore joins

  • Join multiple Core datasets to express business relationships
  • No semantic shortcuts or query-time resolution
  • Transparent, inspectable SQL generation

• Business logic without a semantic layer

  • No BI semantic layer
  • No metric store
  • No query-time calculations
  • No dbt-style macros or templating

• Uniform execution semantics

  • Bizcore datasets participate in the same execution planning
  • Same dependency ordering, retries, and failure semantics
  • Same observability and execution metadata

• SQL Preview = execution truth

  • Bizcore previews render full, real SQL
  • Previewed SQL matches executed SQL exactly
  • Aliases and expressions are fully qualified and explicit

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🔄 Improved

• Automatic qualification of column references in manual expressions
  ensures unambiguous SQL for Bizcore calculations
  without requiring manual aliasing.

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🧭 Positioning

With Bizcore, elevata is now:

• fundamentally different from dbt
• deliberately not a semantic layer
• explicitly not a metric store

Bizcore encodes business meaning inside the data platform —
not in downstream tools or query-time abstractions.

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elevata v0.9.0 marks the transition from technical orchestration
to explicit, executable business semantics.

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.9.0