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Power BI vs Superset: What are the differences?

Power BI and Superset are business intelligence and data visualization tools used to analyze and present data. Let's explore the key differences between Power BI and Superset:

  1. Data Sources and Connectivity: Power BI offers a wide range of data connectivity options, including connectors for popular databases, cloud services, and APIs. Power BI also supports direct query and live connections to databases for real-time data analysis. Superset, on the other hand, supports multiple data sources through SQLAlchemy, a Python-based SQL toolkit. It provides connectors for various databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Superset also allows users to define custom data sources using SQL Alchemy.

  2. Visualization Capabilities: Power BI offers a rich set of visualization options, including charts, graphs, maps, and tables. It provides a drag-and-drop interface for creating interactive dashboards and reports. Power BI also offers pre-built visualizations and custom visuals from its marketplace. Superset, similar to Power BI, provides a wide range of visualization options using popular JavaScript charting libraries such as D3.js and Chart.js. It allows users to create custom dashboards and charts using SQL queries and supports interactive data exploration.

  3. Deployment Options: Power BI offers both cloud-based and on-premises deployment options. With Power BI, users can publish reports and dashboards to the Power BI cloud service, which provides features like data refresh, collaboration, and sharing. Power BI also offers Power BI Report Server for on-premises deployment, allowing organizations to keep their data and reports within their network. Superset, on the other hand, is an open-source tool that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. It requires setup and configuration on a web server, and users have full control over the infrastructure and data security.

  4. Data Governance and Security: Power BI provides robust data governance and security features. It offers role-based access control (RBAC), row-level security, and integration with Azure Active Directory for user authentication and authorization. Power BI also supports data encryption at rest and in transit. Superset, being an open-source tool, may require additional configuration and customization to implement data governance and security features. It provides basic user management and access control, but organizations need to ensure proper security measures are implemented at the infrastructure level.

  5. Advanced Analytics: Power BI provides advanced analytics features with its Premium and Pro licenses, including data modeling, AI-powered insights, and integration with Azure Machine Learning. It also supports custom analytics with R and Python. Superset focuses on data visualization but can perform basic analytics and data exploration using SQL queries, while advanced analytics may require additional integrations or customizations.

  6. Community and Support: Power BI benefits from a large and active community of users and provides extensive documentation, tutorials, and support resources. Superset, being an open-source tool, has an active community of contributors and users. It offers community support through forums, GitHub repositories, and community-driven documentation.

In summary, Power BI, with its extensive data connectivity options, rich visualization capabilities, and cloud-based deployment options, is well-suited for organizations heavily invested in the Microsoft ecosystem. Superset, as an open-source tool, offers flexibility in deployment, supports multiple data sources, and allows for customizations.

Decisions about Power BI and Superset
Vojtech Kopal
Head of Data at Mews Systems · | 3 upvotes · 297.9K views

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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Pros of Power BI
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  • 17
    Cross-filtering
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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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    Database visualisation
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    Azure Based Service
  • 13
    Awesome interactive filtering
  • 9
    Free
  • 6
    Wide SQL database support
  • 6
    Shareable & editable dashboards
  • 5
    Great for data collaborating on data exploration
  • 3
    User & Role Management
  • 3
    Easy to share charts & dasboards

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    • 4
      Link diff db together "Data Modeling "
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      It is difficult to install on the server
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      Ugly GUI

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    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 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.

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