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Interesting development for a lot of the in-database visualization players (Chart.io, Looker, RJMetrics etc) - a lot of the older and weaker players have depend
by mblevin 12y ago
Interesting development for a lot of the in-database visualization players (Chart.io, Looker, RJMetrics etc) - a lot of the older and weaker players have depended on lock-in and inertia to keep them around; this squarely puts them in a bake-off similar to what's happening in the hosted analytics / customer communication space.
I, for one, welcome our new database overlords.
Segment integration has driven more refugees from other analytics platforms than a lot of other channels
More competition in this space is better - let's compete on value for our customers, not lock-in and hostage-taking.
- joeysim 12y agoI totally agree, columnar databases have rendered "traditional" BI tool irrelevant and required the analysis and visualization layer to adapt to billions of records accessible via SQL. We (EverythingMe) open sourced our own internal data visualization and collaboration tool which is used with our own Redshift setup - https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash
- kiyoto 12y agoI see your point, but what you are saying is very extreme. Look no further than Tableau's valuation. The "traditional" BI market is still huge, and if anything, direct SQL-level access benefits a small portion of the entire BI user universe.
- joeysim 12y agoI might have taken it to the extreme (always a good discussion kick-starter), but aamof we did try Tableau an a range of other tools, and being a startup that uses data and most if not all of its people are OK with SQL we managed to be a lot more productive and transparent with re:dash. There's a blog post about the motivations behind building it here - http://geeks.everything.me/2013/12/05/introducing_redash/ http://geeks.everything.me/2013/12/05/introducing_redash/