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Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by bob_roboto » Mon, Jun 10, 2019, 7:35 PM UTC

buremba wrote: post #40

Hey all, as a potential competitor of Looker, I'm not sure how I should feel about this news. :) Here are some of the facts: 1. When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Even though Alooma is a data pipeline tool which makes it similar to Looker's case, the deal was $150M (compared to $2.6B) so I'm not sure the comparison ma…

> When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Do you have a source for that? As far as I can see on their website [1] they still support it

[1] https://www.alooma.com/integrations/to/redshift

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by systemBuilder » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 8:42 PM UTC

joeldo wrote: post #64

mirceal wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you should feel pretty good. i’ve yet to see a product acquired by google that did well after.

YouTube has certainly faired well (even if it is not yet profitable).

I think you go too far! It has been profitable for almost 3 years out of 14 so far!

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by systemBuilder » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 8:44 PM UTC

sturgill wrote: post #15

I'm a huge fan of Looker, but I'm not sure how I feel about this news. The best parts of Looker: - It connects directly to your existing data warehouse. Most BI tools suck in your data into their datastore; Looker queries your database directly. If you wanted Looker to cache results for performance reasons, you could set up a dedicated schema in Redshift for example and only give write privileges to that one schema.…

mode analytics connects to your data warehouse, too.

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by systemBuilder » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 8:46 PM UTC

Achshar wrote: post #24

Me and My team have been working on a Looker alternative for a couple of years. Hope this is the right time to give a pitch. We as a company love to assist our clients with a free consultation in understanding their data better. This will take you to the direct demo: https://demo.katoai.co/login?email=demo@katoai.co&password=k... I can talk a lot about it if anyone is interested.

That looks pretty much like a dress-up of Superset, intended to hide that it's superset.

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by Achshar » Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 7:55 PM UTC

systemBuilder wrote: post #174

Achshar wrote: post #24

Me and My team have been working on a Looker alternative for a couple of years. Hope this is the right time to give a pitch. We as a company love to assist our clients with a free consultation in understanding their data better. This will take you to the direct demo: https://demo.katoai.co/login?email=demo@katoai.co&password=k... I can talk a lot about it if anyone is interested.

That looks pretty much like a dress-up of Superset, intended to hide that it's superset.

We do a bunch of stuff superset doesn't. Mostly related to filters and how they're implemented. We never mess with user's query. We only supply filters to it. Superset doesn't let users write optimized queries. We replaced superset for one of our largest clients and they are extremely happy with the move. This is pure js as well, nothing like superset tech stack wise.