✓ Only accessible inside Power BI Desktop/Fabric
✓ One file per semantic model
✓ Version control is messy
✓ Security is nested
Databricks Mental Model
(Gold) Data
↓
Metric Views (YAML)
↓
Governed in Unity Catalog Versioned Like Code
↓
Dashboards / Genie / Any Tool
✓ One source of truth
✓ Accessible everywhere
✓ Governed database objects
✓ Built-in lineage & audit
🔑 The Key Difference
Your semantic layer isn't a proprietary artifact—it's a governed database object. Power BI semantics are isolated within files; Databricks metrics are discoverable, governed, and accessible to any tool in your ecosystem.