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Metabase vs Superset: What are the differences?
Developers describe Metabase as "An open-source business intelligence tool". Metabase 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. On the other hand, Superset is detailed as "Data exploration and visualization platform, by Airbnb". 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.
Metabase and Superset belong to "Business Intelligence" category of the tech stack.
"Database visualisation" is the primary reason why developers consider Metabase over the competitors, whereas "Awesome interactive filtering" was stated as the key factor in picking Superset.
Metabase and Superset are both open source tools. Superset with 25.1K GitHub stars and 4.83K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Metabase with 15.6K GitHub stars and 2.09K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Metabase has a broader approval, being mentioned in 84 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Superset, which is listed in 18 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Metabase
- Database visualisation58
- Open Source43
- Easy setup40
- Dashboard out of the box35
- Free21
- Simple14
- Support for many dbs8
- Easy embedding7
- Easy6
- It's good6
- AGPL : wont help with adoption but depends on your goal5
- BI doesn't get easier than that5
- Multiple integrations4
- Google analytics integration4
- Easy set up4
Pros of Superset
- Awesome interactive filtering11
- Wide SQL database support6
- Free6
- Shareable & editable dashboards6
- Great for data collaborating on data exploration5
- User & Role Management3
- Easy to share charts & dasboards3
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Cons of Metabase
- Harder to setup than similar tools5
Cons of Superset
- Link diff db together "Data Modeling "4
- It is difficult to install on the server3
- Ugly GUI3
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