Metabase vs Power BI vs Tableau

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Metabase

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Pros of Metabase
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  • 62
    Database visualisation
  • 45
    Open Source
  • 41
    Easy setup
  • 36
    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
  • 5
    AGPL : wont help with adoption but depends on your goal
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    BI doesn't get easier than that
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    Google analytics integration
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    Multiple integrations
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    Easy set up
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    Cross-filtering
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    Database visualisation
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    Powerful Calculation Engine
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    Access from anywhere
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    Intuitive and complete internal ETL
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    Azure Based Service
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    Capable of visualising billions of rows
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    Intuitive and easy to learn
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    Responsive

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Cons of Metabase
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    Harder to setup than similar tools
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      Very expensive for small companies

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    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 Power BI?

    It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.

    What is Tableau?

    Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. Connect to almost any database, drag and drop to create visualizations, and share with a click.

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    What are some alternatives to Metabase, Power BI, and Tableau?
    Superset
    Superset's main goal is to make it easy to slice, dice and visualize data. It empowers users to perform analytics at the speed of thought.
    Looker
    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.
    Kibana
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    Grafana
    Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
    Redash
    Redash helps you make sense of your data. Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company.
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