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Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data

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Re: Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data

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darkxanthos wrote: post #14

We use redash. This allows forking of queries, charting, and some light dashboarding. Also it supports full text searching of queries and descriptions. It's also stand alone and easy to launch on ec2. https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash

We directly use an ipython notebook server shared for the whole company. A lot more flexible but require a big level of trust since it allow total system control

Re: Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data

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Post by darkxanthos »

dulvac wrote: post #20
darkxanthos wrote: post #14

We use redash. This allows forking of queries, charting, and some light dashboarding. Also it supports full text searching of queries and descriptions. It's also stand alone and easy to launch on ec2. https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash

That looks great! I very much prefer the canonical SQL for querying data in a visual way, rather than a "generic" custom querying language. Does it send the query directly to the db? Is there any transformation? Does it mean it only works with sql databases?

Yeah it's basically just a web based SQL front end. It also integrates with Google accounts very well which was a big plus for us.

Re: Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data

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Post by arikfr »

dulvac wrote: post #20
darkxanthos wrote: post #14

We use redash. This allows forking of queries, charting, and some light dashboarding. Also it supports full text searching of queries and descriptions. It's also stand alone and easy to launch on ec2. https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash

That looks great! I very much prefer the canonical SQL for querying data in a visual way, rather than a "generic" custom querying language. Does it send the query directly to the db? Is there any transformation? Does it mean it only works with sql databases?

Yes, Redash sends the query as is to the database. It currently supports PostgreSQL (& Redshift), MySQL, BigQuery, MongoDB, Graphite and Python scripts. Also someone currently working on ElasticSearch support.

The MonogDB & Graphite support is crude, but exists.

I'm the project maintainer, feel free to ask if you have any questions.

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