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

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Post by tlrobinson »

xtracto wrote: post #80
salsakran wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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…

(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.)

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

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Post by etatkomoona »

marrone12 wrote: post #37
etatkomoona wrote: post #29

Redash is great. We've tried several alternatives, including Metabase, and ended up with extensive Redash use. We use the self-hosted version for sharing data between the tech and business sides, for day-to-day monitoring and for ad-hoc visualizations, and are generally very happy with it. It's not perfect - there are some areas, like fine-control over chart customization, query auto-updates (especially queries with…

I've been looking at metabase myself. What were your main issues with it?

The main issue for us was support of JOINs (note that this was a while ago, not sure what's the status now; I did find this relatively recent discussion, though [1])

[1] http://www.metabase.com/blog/Joins

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

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Post by Maarius »

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…

Good question! Our aim is to build the best cloud BI platform for SMEs and we currently don't plan to open source Cluvio. However, we do offer a "free forever" plan that allows you to use our platform for free, indefinitely.

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

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Post by caravel »

babayega2 wrote: post #45
Signez wrote: post #6

Looks great! What about open-sourced Superset[1] from AirBnB? Both looks great, but Superset seems to have a superset of Redash features (bad pun intended). [1]: https://github.com/airbnb/superset

I've tried Superset but halted because there is a bug with PostgreSQL ( https://github.com/airbnb/superset/issues/1900 ). I'll be trying Redash to see what's going on. In the mean time, there is a Django project where I've integrated the sql-explorer ( https://github.com/groveco/django-sql-explorer ) and it was well appreciated. Especially the API endpoint.

That bug is long fixed. Many companies use Superset against Postgres / Redshift. Superset now ships with a SQL IDE as well.

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

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Post by caravel »

sixdimensional wrote: post #78
j_s wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for taking the time to respond! I'm not unstanding why you mentioned Java/JDBC, I'm not aware of any of the mentioned tools (redash,superset,blazer; turns out metabase uses Clojure) using Java. Only redash doesn't list SQL Server support. What am I missing?

Well, I meant in the general context of database connectivity. The underlying database connectivity plumbing is almost always a JDBC or ODBC interface when you're talking a regular DBMS [1]. Historically, ODBC was not always as popular on Linux (being a Microsoft standard originally), although that has changed a lot by today. JDBC was usually more associated to open source/Linux BI/database tools (Java being open sou…

For Superset we use SQLAlchemy and much of the connectivity goes through the DBAPI Python abstraction, and I believe most of the drivers are using native implementations.

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

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mansigandhi wrote: post #17
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 LOVE REDASH at our company. Lack of adequate developers (the neverending startup saga) meant not everyone got what they wanted, fast enough. Redash has changed that for us. We use it extensively across all our teams (operations, sales, marketing etc). Thanks!

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

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mansigandhi wrote: post #17
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 LOVE REDASH at our company. Lack of adequate developers (the neverending startup saga) meant not everyone got what they wanted, fast enough. Redash has changed that for us. We use it extensively across all our teams (operations, sales, marketing etc). Thanks!

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

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mansigandhi wrote: post #17
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 LOVE REDASH at our company. Lack of adequate developers (the neverending startup saga) meant not everyone got what they wanted, fast enough. Redash has changed that for us. We use it extensively across all our teams (operations, sales, marketing etc). Thanks!

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

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mansigandhi wrote: post #17
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 LOVE REDASH at our company. Lack of adequate developers (the neverending startup saga) meant not everyone got what they wanted, fast enough. Redash has changed that for us. We use it extensively across all our teams (operations, sales, marketing etc). Thanks!

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

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mansigandhi wrote: post #17
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 LOVE REDASH at our company. Lack of adequate developers (the neverending startup saga) meant not everyone got what they wanted, fast enough. Redash has changed that for us. We use it extensively across all our teams (operations, sales, marketing etc). Thanks!

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