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I really need a great data explorer/dashboard for my postgres-based systems. I was going to use shiny but this looks really nice -- I hope the docs can be built out very soon. Can anyone comment on other competing products? In the commercial space, I like Looker but its too pricey.
Disclaimer: I am one of the founders.
If anyone involved with this is around, I'm curious why Airbnb would build something like this - cost, performance, features, all of the above? Data querying and visualization is a pretty crowded field with a lot of commercial options to choose from[1]. I'm not knocking Caravel (it looks amazing) just curious why build vs buy in this case. [1] Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Chartio, Qlikview, Gooddata are just some that…
If anyone involved with this is around, I'm curious why Airbnb would build something like this - cost, performance, features, all of the above? Data querying and visualization is a pretty crowded field with a lot of commercial options to choose from[1]. I'm not knocking Caravel (it looks amazing) just curious why build vs buy in this case. [1] Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Chartio, Qlikview, Gooddata are just some that…
If anyone involved with this is around, I'm curious why Airbnb would build something like this - cost, performance, features, all of the above? Data querying and visualization is a pretty crowded field with a lot of commercial options to choose from[1]. I'm not knocking Caravel (it looks amazing) just curious why build vs buy in this case. [1] Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Chartio, Qlikview, Gooddata are just some that…
They mention that it was originally paired with Druid. The data volume that Druid excels at (and that AirBnB must have) is orders of magnitude larger than what Tableau&Looker do well with. It's probably just built for bigger-than-SQL OLAP usecases.
The code is so clean and simple. This is great PR for the company. I want to work there.
I really need a great data explorer/dashboard for my postgres-based systems. I was going to use shiny but this looks really nice -- I hope the docs can be built out very soon. Can anyone comment on other competing products? In the commercial space, I like Looker but its too pricey.
If you're ok pulling the data out of Postgres into memory locally and mostly care about manipulation and beautiful dataviz, then look at Tableau.
If you're mostly interested in more data sciency/ML stuff, then Shiny or something else that's R-based is a good option.
If you're interested in being able to embed your business logic into the tool so that non-SQL folks can build their own queries and everybody's relying on the same data definitions, that's where Looker (disclosure: where I work) excels.
seems a little bit sparse on the documentation or am I missing something?
We'll be providing short user training videos very soon.
Got it up and running easily enough, and connected to Redshift. But seemed like creating a new "slice" required custom JSON params to define it. Unless I missed something?
edit: yep, missed something. Can "explore" a table by clicking it's link in the table listing.
If anyone involved with this is around, I'm curious why Airbnb would build something like this - cost, performance, features, all of the above? Data querying and visualization is a pretty crowded field with a lot of commercial options to choose from[1]. I'm not knocking Caravel (it looks amazing) just curious why build vs buy in this case. [1] Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Chartio, Qlikview, Gooddata are just some that…
They mention that it was originally paired with Druid. The data volume that Druid excels at (and that AirBnB must have) is orders of magnitude larger than what Tableau&Looker do well with. It's probably just built for bigger-than-SQL OLAP usecases.
Anyway, the ones where bring your own database can scale as far as the database can bring you.
I really need a great data explorer/dashboard for my postgres-based systems. I was going to use shiny but this looks really nice -- I hope the docs can be built out very soon. Can anyone comment on other competing products? In the commercial space, I like Looker but its too pricey.
Take a look to http://www.metabase.com/ (open source, made by Expa, Uber's co-founder incubator).