Anyone that worked it and could compare with Redash?
Apache Superset
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Re: Apache Superset
#32This looks like grafana, right? Why would I use this instead of grafana?
grafana is built more for operational and timeseries data, but not so optimal for complex analytical queries. Ex: up-to-second data on cpu load on a host.
superset is the flip side of grafana; not good for up-to-second updates, but good for complex queries. Also, non-time series stuff. Ex: Which customer groups bought which products for all time? <— that type of BI stuff.
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#33So it's irritating to me that this is ranking #1 on HN (why is it, btw?) I just pulled the trigger on a large data gathering project using Metabase, and feel a bit hampered by the limitations in terms of charts and plugins... but I considered Superset first, and after a lot of thought I decided that almost everything I've ever worked with that was run by the Apache foundation turned out to be semi-abandoned disasterw…
"semi-abandoned disasterware" Hmm. I suppose all open source looks that way if it doesn't get regular funding/attention. Apache does house a lot of abandonware. They had some relevance as recently as 6-7 years ago but they've been largely replaced by nginx I think. That being said, I view them like the local soup-kitchen - important to have and maintain, but not where I want to go for a 5-star meal.
The Apache foundation is way larger than just the server
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
"semi-abandoned disasterware" Hmm. I suppose all open source looks that way if it doesn't get regular funding/attention. Apache does house a lot of abandonware. They had some relevance as recently as 6-7 years ago but they've been largely replaced by nginx I think. That being said, I view them like the local soup-kitchen - important to have and maintain, but not where I want to go for a 5-star meal.
The Apache foundation is way larger than just the server
Yes, I agree. However a lot of their forward facing projects seem to be effective abandon-ware (few people interested in contributing, competing more popular solutions based on forks, or just no longer relevant).
These projects don't give the apache foundation an appearance of importance or relevance, rather they make it look rather rundown.
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#35Has anyone tried both this and Metabase? I've used Metabase in a few projects and I find it very nice. This seems more powerful, perhaps? Is it worth it for BI on small datasets?
Yes, I am at a company using Metabase, but I have a decent amount of experience with Superset (albeit from many years ago). The reason we chose Metabase was that it had table joins, while Superset doesn't (unless it has added them since I used it). It also looks a bit sleeker. But I strongly prefer Superset; I found that with Metabase I had to turn a lot of things off to make it usable (Let me see "the_table" not "Th…
The "model" vs "question" thing is really annoying as there's no real difference from the user's perspective, and it's easy to accidentally convert a model back to a question without noticing when you publish something. You notice when you try to drill into the chart. There's a lot of annoying manual labor in metabase, e.g. I want to filter something into 10 different charts and I need to duplicate it 10 times and change a filter on each one. Still yeah joins are nice. A non-bugged aggregate count/sum as a window function would be nicer.
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#36So it's irritating to me that this is ranking #1 on HN (why is it, btw?) I just pulled the trigger on a large data gathering project using Metabase, and feel a bit hampered by the limitations in terms of charts and plugins... but I considered Superset first, and after a lot of thought I decided that almost everything I've ever worked with that was run by the Apache foundation turned out to be semi-abandoned disasterw…
Because we (the FBI Surveillance Van) saw that you picked Metabase, called our shady French-accented overlord, and he told us to dump it.
I knew it!!
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#37Had a very good experience with Superset. Superset allowed us to replace Tableau and not looking back Took me a while figure out how to embed it into my app using Superset Embedded SDK. Superset Embedded SDK - "Embedded SDK allows you to embed dashboards from Superset into your own app, using your app's authentication. Embedding is done by inserting an iframe, containing a Superset page, into the host application." h…
I have no experience with Superset. Can you elaborate on a few points where you see it excel beyond Tableau?
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#38So it's irritating to me that this is ranking #1 on HN (why is it, btw?) I just pulled the trigger on a large data gathering project using Metabase, and feel a bit hampered by the limitations in terms of charts and plugins... but I considered Superset first, and after a lot of thought I decided that almost everything I've ever worked with that was run by the Apache foundation turned out to be semi-abandoned disasterw…
> topping HN for no apparent reason
I think the HN algo is pretty easily manipulated. I worked at a startup that had an effective process to get things to the front page
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#39Generally what you get when VentureCapital/PrivateEquity buys out Redash.io, messes up end users in the process and spits it out a few years later, leaving users confused as to where it stands in the BI tools landscape.
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#40I wish more projects had guided tour videos that demonstrated the power of the tool in the hands of an expert user. Not "get started" but "why should I care".
Wes McKinney used to have an excellent 5 minute introduction to pandas in this genre.