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Redash vs Shiny: What are the differences?
What is Redash? Easily query an existing database, share the dataset and visualize it in different ways. 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.
What is Shiny? *An R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps *. It is an open source R package that provides an elegant and powerful web framework for building web applications using R. It helps you turn your analyses into interactive web applications without requiring HTML, CSS, or JavaScript knowledge.
Redash and Shiny can be primarily classified as "Business Intelligence" tools.
Redash is an open source tool with 13.1K GitHub stars and 2.17K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Redash's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Redash
- Open Source9
- SQL Friendly3
Pros of Shiny
- R Compatibility8
- Free3
- Highly customizable and extensible2
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Cons of Redash
- All results are loaded into RAM before displaying1
- Memory Leaks1