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OTOH, I've evaluated Metabase a number of times and never manage to get more than 10 minutes in before running into some staggering flaw that convinces me that

OTOH, I've evaluated Metabase a number of times and never manage to get more than 10 minutes in before running into some staggering flaw that convinces me that I can't put this in front of other people in the business and expect them to use it. I ended up deploying Redash instead - it is unquestionably a much less ambitious project, but it mostly achieves its aims.

arikfr 6y ago
Not excited about the “less ambitious project”, but still better than being something that can’t be put in front of people. Glad you found Redash useful. :-)
- pplonski86 6y ago
  @arikfr I've learned a lot from redash. Firstly, after knowing redash, I decided to go open-source with my service. I learned a lot from reading redash source-code/repository. Your project is amazing and was inspiration for me! Thank you!
bdcravens 6y ago
Metabase's indexing really killed our database (SQL Server with dozens of tables, in the low terrabytes) performance. Obviously it's best practice to put that data in either a read replica or in another source, but at the time it wasn't worth the effort for us.
justinclift 6y ago
What did you think of Apache Superset? We (dbhub.io) were looking at the existing Open Source BI tool front ends, trying to see if there are good chart widget sets and or query text box interfaces we could integrate. Superset was terrible, whereas Metabase seemed pretty easy to use. Ended up just integrating Plotly.js charts though, like Redash, as they seemed more straightfoward. Redash uses them to good effect too. :)