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There’s also Metabase which I’ve found to be significantly more polished and straightforward to run.

marcinzm 5y ago
We use Metabase right now and tried Superset. Took me an hour to figure out how to create a simple set of filters on a dashboard. They renamed things at some point so most online documentation no longer makes sense. Also, having to creating a dummy widget just to filter with is overly complicated I feel. Seems a tool clearly made by engineers for engineers.
manigandham 5y ago
Also Redash which I find to be more powerful: https://redash.io/ https://redash.io/
- js4ever 5y ago
  Isn't redash dead? "Redash has joined Databricks"
  - manigandham 5y ago
    No. Did you read the blog post? The commercial business was acquired by Databricks. The project is still open-source and actively developed.
    - citrin_ru 5y ago
      I see commits in github, but there are no releases. 9.0-beta was tagged just before the acquisition and there is still no 9.0 release, which is a bad sign.
      - manigandham 5y ago
        https://discuss.redash.io/t/when-are-expecting-redash-v9-stable-build/7219/2 https://discuss.redash.io/t/when-are-expecting-redash-v9-sta... "The V9 beta is stable. It’s been in production on app.redash.io for more than six months." That was last year. The commit activity is more important than the releases. Main branch works fine for us.
shmoogy 5y ago
I like Metabase a lot, my org has a few people who were very accustomed to the filters in Tableau, so I had to buy some licenses, but Metabase is great, fast, and runs on very low end EC2 instances. Big kudos to the team that works on it.
- sk5t 5y ago
  Although some things in Metabase seem a little too asynchronous, it inspires confidence to see it's written in Clojure! We run it on ECS/Fargate with Aurora Serverless, very tidy deployment.
jpetrucc 5y ago
+1 for metabase, I've used it all over the place
- tomnipotent 5y ago
  Agreed. If you need general "self-serve" reporting that's basically a glorified pivot table aimed at business users, Metabase is top-notch. If you're an analyst looking for more control and don't foresee business users "self-serving", a tool like Superset has more breadth and allows for greater customization and "wow" factor. I much prefer Metabase, and so have my non-technical business users that use it daily to pull data. If you design your reports well, a huge amount of value can be extracted with simple filter/group/aggregate pivot table mechanics.

We use Metabase right now and tried Superset. Took me an hour to figure out how to create a simple set of filters on a dashboard. They renamed things at some point so most online documentation no longer makes sense. Also, having to creating a dummy widget just to filter with is overly complicated I feel. Seems a tool clearly made by engineers for engineers.

manigandham 5y ago

Also Redash which I find to be more powerful: https://redash.io/ https://redash.io/

js4ever 5y ago
Isn't redash dead? "Redash has joined Databricks"
- manigandham 5y ago
  No. Did you read the blog post? The commercial business was acquired by Databricks. The project is still open-source and actively developed.
  - citrin_ru 5y ago
    I see commits in github, but there are no releases. 9.0-beta was tagged just before the acquisition and there is still no 9.0 release, which is a bad sign.
    - manigandham 5y ago
      https://discuss.redash.io/t/when-are-expecting-redash-v9-stable-build/7219/2 https://discuss.redash.io/t/when-are-expecting-redash-v9-sta... "The V9 beta is stable. It’s been in production on app.redash.io for more than six months." That was last year. The commit activity is more important than the releases. Main branch works fine for us.

shmoogy 5y ago

I like Metabase a lot, my org has a few people who were very accustomed to the filters in Tableau, so I had to buy some licenses, but Metabase is great, fast, and runs on very low end EC2 instances. Big kudos to the team that works on it.

sk5t 5y ago
Although some things in Metabase seem a little too asynchronous, it inspires confidence to see it's written in Clojure! We run it on ECS/Fargate with Aurora Serverless, very tidy deployment.

jpetrucc 5y ago

+1 for metabase, I've used it all over the place

tomnipotent 5y ago
Agreed. If you need general "self-serve" reporting that's basically a glorified pivot table aimed at business users, Metabase is top-notch. If you're an analyst looking for more control and don't foresee business users "self-serving", a tool like Superset has more breadth and allows for greater customization and "wow" factor. I much prefer Metabase, and so have my non-technical business users that use it daily to pull data. If you design your reports well, a huge amount of value can be extracted with simple filter/group/aggregate pivot table mechanics.