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I tried Redash some time ago while I was looking for a very simple "BI" like tool that our non-technical or low-technical colleagues could use (people in Client

by xtracto 10y ago

I tried Redash some time ago while I was looking for a very simple "BI" like tool that our non-technical or low-technical colleagues could use (people in Client Satisfaction team). I settled for Metabase (http://www.metabase.com/ http://www.metabase.com/ , https://github.com/metabase/metabase https://github.com/metabase/metabase ), mainly for the ease of use and installation (a simple java -jar metabase.jar does the trick). Redash was a close second (one advantage at that time was the ability to have users that could only read queries), but after fighting with it for a while in order to install it, I tested Metabase and haven't looked back since.

arikfr 10y ago
(Redash author) Having a single executable is definitely the best, and I wish we had one for Readsh... trying to compensate on this with the Docker and cloud (AWS / GCE) images for easy setup.
- foodabytes 10y ago
  How about bitnami? They provide Redash virtual machines and installers already?
  - the_common_man 10y ago
    Or a cloudron app.
salsakran 10y ago
I'm one of the Metabase team, and for what it's worth, we support read-only users now!
- xtracto 10y ago
  Kind of... I mean, we use it very heavily in my current company. And we are always looking forward for a new release. What you cannot do right now (v0.22.0) is let some people see cards but not create "new questions". I know the current release being developed is tackling something akin to "published dashboards", so I am very happy. Btw, great work! you cannot imagine how happy Metabase made both our Devs (we didn't have the bandwidth to program dashboards or setup something more demanding) and our non-techs who were super excited to learn SQL and now have some impressive dashboards in Metabase. This is some shit we would be willing to pay for.
  - tlrobinson 10y ago
    (I also work on Metabase) > What you cannot do right now (v0.22.0) is let some people see cards but not create "new questions". You definitely can do this with "Collections" (added in v0.20.0 I believe). You need to make sure to revoke all the "Data Access" and "SQL Queries" permissions for all groups the user belongs to (including the "All Users" group), then give their group "View" permission to the collection you want to allow them to view cards in. (Now that I think about it, I'm not sure why we don't have a similar permission for cards that aren't in a collection.)

by xtracto 10y ago

arikfr 10y ago

(Redash author) Having a single executable is definitely the best, and I wish we had one for Readsh... trying to compensate on this with the Docker and cloud (AWS / GCE) images for easy setup.

foodabytes 10y ago
How about bitnami? They provide Redash virtual machines and installers already?
- the_common_man 10y ago
  Or a cloudron app.

salsakran 10y ago

I'm one of the Metabase team, and for what it's worth, we support read-only users now!

xtracto 10y ago
Kind of... I mean, we use it very heavily in my current company. And we are always looking forward for a new release. What you cannot do right now (v0.22.0) is let some people see cards but not create "new questions". I know the current release being developed is tackling something akin to "published dashboards", so I am very happy. Btw, great work! you cannot imagine how happy Metabase made both our Devs (we didn't have the bandwidth to program dashboards or setup something more demanding) and our non-techs who were super excited to learn SQL and now have some impressive dashboards in Metabase. This is some shit we would be willing to pay for.
- tlrobinson 10y ago
  (I also work on Metabase) > What you cannot do right now (v0.22.0) is let some people see cards but not create "new questions". You definitely can do this with "Collections" (added in v0.20.0 I believe). You need to make sure to revoke all the "Data Access" and "SQL Queries" permissions for all groups the user belongs to (including the "All Users" group), then give their group "View" permission to the collection you want to allow them to view cards in. (Now that I think about it, I'm not sure why we don't have a similar permission for cards that aren't in a collection.)