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Apache Superset is an enterprise-ready business intelligence web application (airbnb.io)
25 points by aloknnikhil on Oct 2, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


I don't think superset is "enterprise ready". It is an extraordinarily powerful tool, but it's sitting in a niche. Allow me to offer some criticisms from our experience.

The setup process for SuperSet involves a 100 fragile tiny OS components, so the only viable object is the docker image and the security risks associated with giving an image unfettered access to your data in an environment where updating CVEs for individual components will break the application.

Then once you have it installed, the setup process with your datamodel is also time consuming. If you make it past that, the UI has a steep learning curve that will turn away non-technical users.

Compare that to the likes of Metabase. Download the jar. Download a JVM. Start it with java -jar metabase.jar Point it at your database. It automatically goes and creates a data dictionary for you. It's smart enough to figure out which fields are relevant. It comes with a built in data browser. It has a WYSIWYG query editor. It allows for instant sharing of questions and dashboards. It has fallback to questions written in SQL.

I really hope they can improve on all of these things, but it's a complex project with a very large codebase.


Been using metabase at our org, similar type of project - finally getting “less technical” users to look there to answer their own questions.

The likes of superset, redash & metabase are awesome - would recommend all three to any org.


If I only want to use one, which one is the best? Plugging into standard PostgreSQL with few hundred millions of records


They all have their strengths and weaknesses. Having used all three, I’d start with Metabase. It’s super easy to setup and I’d argue it has the most intuitive interface for non-technical end users.


I would suggest you give Metabase a try as it is very easy to set up and get started.


Here is a tutorial on how to use Superset and Dremio to visualize data from multiple data sources. https://www.dremio.com/tutorials/dremio-apache-superset/


the commercial version: https://preset.io/




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