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Re: Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data

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Post by arikfr »

aceregen wrote: post #59
huy wrote: post #48

I really like Redash, it’s one of the early tools that introduce this concept of turn SQL into chart to developers, and also teach developers to learn and write better SQL, altogether without any cost. I evaluated Redash during my past company back in 2013 (we were also using Tableau), but due to some Redash’s lack of features (no support for filters, lack of permission control, sporadic performance), we went and bui…

Hello! Redash is great if you are looking to host it in-house and have the engineering resources to set-up and maintain it. If you are looking for an affordable SaaS alternative, you may want to look into Holistics (www.holistics.io). (Note I'm the other co-founder here with huy) Besides supporting native SQL, Holistics is designed to address the gaps of SQL for common business reporting use-cases (flexible way of pa…

> Hello! Redash is great if you are looking to host it in-house and have the engineering resources to set-up and maintain it. If you are looking for an affordable SaaS alternative...

Well, actually there is a hosted SaaS version of Redash too (https://redash.io). This is what sponsors the work on Redash.

Re: Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data

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Post by arikfr »

erlend_sh wrote: post #60
Maarius wrote: post #41

For those of you looking for a another fully hosted solution, check out https://www.cluvio.com (full disclosure: I am one of the founders). Like redash, Cluvio allows you to run SQL queries against your database and quickly visualize results as beautiful, interactive dashboards, which can easily be shared within your company or externally. We developed our own custom grammar on top of SQL which makes writing time-ran…

Hey Maarius, thanks for chiming in! I've had my eye on Cluvio for a while so I was gonna drop it in here to ask how the two compare. For me, an open source core is a huge gesture of trust though. It's the ultimate "no lock-in strategy" guarantee. This business model has been proven sustainable by several SAAS companies, such as Automattic (WordPress.com), Discourse (which I work for), Sentry, Piwik and hopefully Reda…

At the moment (and I hope to keep it this way), it's not only the core of Redash that is open source -- it's the whole product. There are a few features that are introduced on the hosted version first, for ease of development. But most of it goes to the open source first.

As we (Redash) use Discourse as well, it will be only fitting, to have Discourse use Redash :-)

(btw, Sentry are Redash users as well[1])

Feel free to ping me (arik at redash.io).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13599631

Re: Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data

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Post by seppemans »

kamranjon wrote: post #26

I was working for a company that relied heavily on Wagon - and then it got bought by Box and they shutdown the product. We looked for alternatives but nothing seemed to offer what Wagon had - this looks like it might be a good fit though. Excited to try it out.

You should also check out DataMill (http://www.datamillapp.com), it's quite similar to what Wagon offered. Installed as an app, context-aware SQL autocomplete and built-in charting. It's in public beta - give it a try :-)

(DataMill author)

Re: Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data

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Post by spapas82 »

arikfr wrote: post #55
spapas82 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you very much! I'll try using the bootstrap script and come to slack if I encounter difficulties. Best regards!

Just don't run the script as is on existing server. It's designed to run on a vanilla server.

Of course, I'll just use it as a reference to see the required components and steps to integrate them - thanks again!

Re: Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data

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Post by actuator »

Thanks, @arikfr for the project.

We started using redash about 2 years back. We use it for ad-hoc SQL to Redshift and MySQL and most of our business level KPI dashboards are there. One thing I would want to do is add some metabase like segmentation there(preferably that works with joins), so that marketing/sales people can also actively query from it.

Re: Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data

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Post by tlrobinson »

hopeless wrote: post #39
nileshtrivedi wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Metabase is another great open-source tool: http://www.metabase.com/

Metabase is my new favourite tool: I've probably use it every day to answer some question instead of dropping into the Rails console. Things like: what percentage of orders come from Stripe vs Paypal? Or export a list of users that match this criteria. Or display the top 10 users by some metric. It makes creating BI charts from a database easy enough that a non-developer can do it. But when the going gets tough, I ca…

Hey I work on Metabase, thanks for the kind words and feedback.

Regarding pulling data from APIs, there's nothing inherently stopping us (or you) from pulling data from APIs (in fact that's what the Google Analytics driver does). Are you looking for integrations with specific 3rd party APIs, or an easier way to integrate with your own APIs?

Feel free to respond here, email me, or file a GitHub issue. Thanks.

Re: Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data

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Post by thedangler »

arikfr wrote: post #14

Hi! I'm the author of Redash :) Nice to see Redash at the top of HN. I'll be happy to answer any questions about Redash, open source and about my journey to make Redash a self sustainable project. For any questions that don't fit on HN, feel free to reach me at arik at redash.io.

We use Crystal Reports pretty heavily at my job but we are tying to move away from them. Could we use this to do something similar to crystal reports?

Re: Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data

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Post by samstave »

arikfr wrote: post #14

Hi! I'm the author of Redash :) Nice to see Redash at the top of HN. I'll be happy to answer any questions about Redash, open source and about my journey to make Redash a self sustainable project. For any questions that don't fit on HN, feel free to reach me at arik at redash.io.

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