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  5. Looker vs PopSQL

Looker vs PopSQL

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Overview

Looker
Looker
Stacks632
Followers656
Votes9
PopSQL
PopSQL
Stacks31
Followers157
Votes1

Looker vs PopSQL: What are the differences?

What is Looker? Pioneering the next generation of BI, data discovery & data analytics. We've built a unique data modeling language, connections to today's fastest analytical databases, and a service that you can deploy on any infrastructure, and explore on any device. Plus, we'll help you every step of the way.

What is PopSQL? Modern SQL editor for teams. PopSQL is a modern SQL editor for teams. It lets you write queries, organize them in folders, visualize your data, and collaborate with your team.

Looker and PopSQL can be categorized as "Business Intelligence" tools.

Some of the features offered by Looker are:

  • Zero-lag access to data
  • No limits
  • Personalized setup and support

On the other hand, PopSQL provides the following key features:

  • Modern UI
  • Realtime collaboration
  • Share queries and results by URL

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Advice on Looker, PopSQL

Mohan
Mohan

CEO at UPJAUNT

Nov 10, 2020

Needs adviceonFirebaseFirebaseGoogle BigQueryGoogle BigQueryData StudioData Studio

We are a consumer mobile app IOS/Android startup. The app is instrumented with branch and Firebase. We use Google BigQuery. We are looking at tools that can support engagement and cohort analysis at an early stage price which we can grow with. Data Studio is the default but it would seem Looker provides more power. We don't have much insight into Amplitude other than the fact it is a popular PM tool. Please provide some insight.

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Vojtech
Vojtech

Head of Data at Mews

Nov 24, 2019

Decided

Power BI is really easy to start with. If you have just several Excel sheets or CSV files, or you build your first automated pipeline, it is actually quite intuitive to build your first reports.

And as we have kept growing, all the additional features and tools were just there within the Azure platform and/or Office 365.

Since we started building Mews, we have already passed several milestones in becoming start up, later also a scale up company and now getting ready to grow even further, and during all these phases Power BI was just the right tool for us.

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Michael
Michael

CTO at Barsala

Oct 2, 2020

Needs advice

Our engineering team is deciding which data warehouse to integrate with our system, and the BI tool to interface with it.

Preliminary question - Is it best practice to try and consolidate all data to be analyzed in one location (warehouse) then have the BI tool just interface with that one source to draw insights? Know some BI tools can connect to multiple but not sure if that's a crutch until teams are able to create a single destination for all of their data

Business Requirements

  • We're looking to create dashboards for each company KPI - with the primary KPI as the highlight of the dashboard, then other downstream metrics that impact it alongside of it
  • We're looking to sync data across the platforms we work with: Stripe, Twilio, Sendgrid, Salesforce, Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Paypal, Business Amazon account (not AWS)
  • For the BI tool, we want to be able to share dashboards, connect different API's and databases, have flexible date ranges, and a nice to have is easy to interface with if team members don't know SQL

Current stack

  • Segment to route user events to Google Adwords, Facebook Ads, Mixpanel, and S3
  • Mixpanel to analyze web and mobile metrics
  • Fullstory for enhanced mobile and web visibility
  • Salesforce as a CRM - majority of our data lies within here

Current thoughts

  • AWS Redshift seems to be well adopted, integrate with most tools, and we're already building on AWS so it seems to make sense. BigQuery seemed more expensive and Snowflake didn't seem terrible but wasn't in AWS ecosystem
  • Looker has looked the most impressive on the BI tool side, but open to discussion
  • We're looking to do this alongside other projects with an in-house engineer and a contractor - we're a bit limited on the technical resources and we're looking to at least get a first pass in and eventually enhance the integration as we have bandwidth

Guidance / advice is appreciated, even if it's only for data warehousing or BI tools specifically (and not both)

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Detailed Comparison

Looker
Looker
PopSQL
PopSQL

We've built a unique data modeling language, connections to today's fastest analytical databases, and a service that you can deploy on any infrastructure, and explore on any device. Plus, we'll help you every step of the way.

It is a modern SQL editor for teams. It lets you write queries, organize them in folders, visualize your data, and collaborate with your team.

Zero-lag access to data;No limits;Personalized setup and support;No uploading, warehousing, or indexing;Deploy anywhere;Works in any browser, anywhere;Personalized access points
Modern UI; Realtime collaboration; Share queries and results by URL; Organize queries in folders; Data visualization; Tabs to multitask; Autocomplete; Works with many databases; Works with all operating systems
Statistics
Stacks
632
Stacks
31
Followers
656
Followers
157
Votes
9
Votes
1
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 4
    Real time in app customer chat support
  • 4
    GitHub integration
  • 1
    Reduces the barrier of entry to utilizing data
Cons
  • 3
    Price
Pros
  • 1
    Has tutorial at CodeCamp
Integrations
No integrations available
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Linux
Linux
MySQL
MySQL
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift
Windows 10
Windows 10
Cassandra
Cassandra
SQLite
SQLite
Presto
Presto
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL

What are some alternatives to Looker, PopSQL?

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dbForge Studio for MySQL

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dbForge Studio for Oracle

dbForge Studio for Oracle

It is a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) which helps Oracle SQL developers to increase PL/SQL coding speed, provides versatile data editing tools for managing in-database and external data.

dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL

dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL

It is a GUI tool for database development and management. The IDE for PostgreSQL allows users to create, develop, and execute queries, edit and adjust the code to their requirements in a convenient and user-friendly interface.

Metabase

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.

dbForge Studio for SQL Server

dbForge Studio for SQL Server

It is a powerful IDE for SQL Server management, administration, development, data reporting and analysis. The tool will help SQL developers to manage databases, version-control database changes in popular source control systems, speed up routine tasks, as well, as to make complex database changes.

Liquibase

Liquibase

Liquibase is th leading open-source tool for database schema change management. Liquibase helps teams track, version, and deploy database schema and logic changes so they can automate their database code process with their app code process.

Sequel Pro

Sequel Pro

Sequel Pro is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.

DBeaver

DBeaver

It is a free multi-platform database tool for developers, SQL programmers, database administrators and analysts. Supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, Teradata, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, etc.

dbForge SQL Complete

dbForge SQL Complete

It is an IntelliSense add-in for SQL Server Management Studio, designed to provide the fastest T-SQL query typing ever possible.

Knex.js

Knex.js

Knex.js is a "batteries included" SQL query builder for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite3, and Oracle designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use. It features both traditional node style callbacks as well as a promise interface for cleaner async flow control, a stream interface, full featured query and schema builders, transaction support (with savepoints), connection pooling and standardized responses between different query clients and dialects.

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