Amazon Quicksight vs Metabase vs Periscope

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Amazon Quicksight

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Metabase

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Periscope

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Pros of Amazon Quicksight
Pros of Metabase
Pros of Periscope
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    Dataset versionning
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    Good integration with aws Glue ETL services
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    More features (table calculations, functions, insights)
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    Better integration with aws
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    Super cheap
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    Database visualisation
  • 45
    Open Source
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    Easy setup
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    Dashboard out of the box
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    Free
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    Simple
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    Support for many dbs
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    Easy embedding
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    Easy
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    It's good
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    AGPL : wont help with adoption but depends on your goal
  • 5
    BI doesn't get easier than that
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    Google analytics integration
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    Multiple integrations
  • 4
    Easy set up
  • 6
    Great for learning and teaching people SQL
  • 4
    Gorgeous "share-able" and "embeddable" dashboards

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Cons of Amazon Quicksight
Cons of Metabase
Cons of Periscope
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    Very basic BI tool
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    Only works in AWS environments (not GCP, Azure)
  • 7
    Harder to setup than similar tools
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    What is Amazon Quicksight?

    Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data.

    What is Metabase?

    It is an easy way to generate charts and dashboards, ask simple ad hoc queries without using SQL, and see detailed information about rows in your Database. You can set it up in under 5 minutes, and then give yourself and others a place to ask simple questions and understand the data your application is generating.

    What is Periscope?

    Periscope is a data analysis tool that uses pre-emptive in-memory caching and statistical sampling to run data analyses really, really fast.

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