Wagon Acquired by Box

Yeah I'm pretty bummed about this. Are there any similar locally-run apps that make it easy to get graphs from your SQL queries? I've seen a few SaaS apps like Periscope that do similar, but I'm not a fan of letting other companies load up our entire database just to make some graphs.

Re: Wagon Acquired by Box

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Post by RexM » Wed, Aug 31, 2016, 10:52 PM UTC

I found out about wagon 2 hours ago and was playing with it a bit today.

For me, that was very short lived, but their application did actually seem nice. What a bummer.

Re: Wagon Acquired by Box

#6

Post by ryanj20021 » Wed, Aug 31, 2016, 11:04 PM UTC

Was a great product and team

Re: Wagon Acquired by Box

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Post by colinbartlett » Wed, Aug 31, 2016, 11:37 PM UTC

papa_bear wrote: post #4

samdalton wrote: post #3

Another great and innovative app thrown into the dust from an acquisition. They actually made working with SQL a joy.

Yeah I'm pretty bummed about this. Are there any similar locally-run apps that make it easy to get graphs from your SQL queries? I've seen a few SaaS apps like Periscope that do similar, but I'm not a fan of letting other companies load up our entire database just to make some graphs.

I'm a big fan of Looker[1]. It's one of the best BI tools I've used and it lets you work with SQL but abstracts away much of the minutiae of writing it. It's an enterprise SaaS app, although they do allow you to self host.

For side projects and such I use Metabase[2] which is open source and pretty useful for giving business users access to query data. Its visualizations are rudimentary but workable.

1. https://looker.com

2. https://github.com/metabase/metabase

Re: Wagon Acquired by Box

#8

Post by scapecast » Wed, Aug 31, 2016, 11:41 PM UTC

ryanj20021 wrote: post #6

Was a great product and team

Indeed. They got $2M in funding - must have run out of money and not been able to secure follow-up funding. Unfortunate.

Re: Wagon Acquired by Box

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Post by proksoup » Wed, Aug 31, 2016, 11:48 PM UTC

papa_bear wrote: post #4

samdalton wrote: post #3

Another great and innovative app thrown into the dust from an acquisition. They actually made working with SQL a joy.

Yeah I'm pretty bummed about this. Are there any similar locally-run apps that make it easy to get graphs from your SQL queries? I've seen a few SaaS apps like Periscope that do similar, but I'm not a fan of letting other companies load up our entire database just to make some graphs.

DBvisualizer ... A Java app but it does that job pretty okay.

Re: Wagon Acquired by Box

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Post by jesalg » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 12:06 AM UTC

papa_bear wrote: post #4

samdalton wrote: post #3

Another great and innovative app thrown into the dust from an acquisition. They actually made working with SQL a joy.

Yeah I'm pretty bummed about this. Are there any similar locally-run apps that make it easy to get graphs from your SQL queries? I've seen a few SaaS apps like Periscope that do similar, but I'm not a fan of letting other companies load up our entire database just to make some graphs.

I second Metabase recommendation. Like the fact that it's OSS.