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A DuckDB-based metabase alternative

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Re: A DuckDB-based metabase alternative

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Post by written-beyond »

This is really nice, specially the pdf report generation.

I feel very moronic making a dashboard for any products now. Enterprise customers prefer you integrate into their ERPs anyway.

I think we lost the plot as an industry, I've always advocated for having a read only database connection to be available for your customers to make their own visualisations. This should've been the standard 10 years ago and it's case is only stronger in this age of LLMs.

We get so involved with our products we forget that our customers are humans too. Nobody wants another account to manage or remember. Analytics and alerts should be push based, configurable reports should get auto generated and sent to your inbox, alerts should be pushed via notifications or emails and customers should have an option to build their own dashboard with something like this.

Sane defaults make sense but location matters just as much.

Re: A DuckDB-based metabase alternative

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Post by matsz »

written-beyond wrote: post #2

This is really nice, specially the pdf report generation. I feel very moronic making a dashboard for any products now. Enterprise customers prefer you integrate into their ERPs anyway. I think we lost the plot as an industry, I've always advocated for having a read only database connection to be available for your customers to make their own visualisations. This should've been the standard 10 years ago and it's case…

> I've always advocated for having a read only database connection to be available for your customers to make their own visualisations.

A layer on top of the database to account for auth/etc. would be necessary anyways. Could be achieved to some degree with views, but I'd prefer an approach where you choose the publicly available data explicitly.

GraphQL almost delivered on that dream. Something more opinionated would've been much better, though.

Re: A DuckDB-based metabase alternative

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Post by mitjam »

written-beyond wrote: post #2

This is really nice, specially the pdf report generation. I feel very moronic making a dashboard for any products now. Enterprise customers prefer you integrate into their ERPs anyway. I think we lost the plot as an industry, I've always advocated for having a read only database connection to be available for your customers to make their own visualisations. This should've been the standard 10 years ago and it's case…

1999-2000, the company I worked with gave a smallish number of key users full read rights to the SAP minus HR, briefly after introducing SAP to the global supply chain of that company. The key users came from all orgs using SAP, basically every department had one or two key users.

I was part of this and "saw the light". We had such a great visibility into all the processes, it was unreal. It tremendously sped-up cross-org initiatives.

Today, I guess, only agents get that privilege.

Re: A DuckDB-based metabase alternative

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Post by pletnes »

robowo wrote: post #4
andrewstuart wrote: post #3

I wanted to love DuckDB but it was so crashy I had to give up.

I use it daily and it never crashed. How long ago was this? I am a big fan of DuckDB. Plow through hundrets of GB of logs on a 5 year old linux laptop - no problem.

Same here. I have however seen a few out of memory cases in the past when given large input files.
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