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Is it just me or is Periscope allergic to saying what databases it supports? I can find nothing on the website, and I am really hesitant to sign up for more info once companies started actually calling my phone after I did that.

Also, none of those queries will work on MySQL.

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Periscope Data cofounder here. I wouldn't say we're "allergic" necessarily. ;) Like a lot of startups, we're very young and haven't gotten around to building out the website as much as we'd like to.

`jplitz and `ajones are right. As of now we support MySQL, Postgres, Amazon Redshift, Vertica, SQL Server, Oracle, MemSQL, Sybase, Exasol and Google BigQuery. We add more all the time.

The examples worked well in Hive also.

I've never used Periscope but have followed and read the blog for a while. Always great content.

Shouldn't be too much work to copy/paste that onto the website, should we expect to see it there soon? :)

I recognize the syntax in "date_trunc('day', created_at)::date as day,", namely the cast "::date", as PostgreSQL syntax. Could be something else as well but I've only seen it with PostgreSQL.

They support Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, Redshift, and Oracle I believe.

I know that they also support MySQL. We have Periscope connected to a MySQL database.

That's useful info, I may sign up for a demo then.

They also support MySQL. At least they did when I tired it some time ago.

PostgreSQL or its derivatives.

The code would work on most engines that support CTEs, with some changes to the type casting syntax.

Thus most except MySQL.

The examples are either PostgreSQL or Amazon Redshift (which is based on the same syntax).

It's redshift, based on the contents of previous blogs.

Is it just me or is Periscope allergic to showing the "Pricing" page? (SaaS anti-pattern) Or is it free?

The blog content is good though

I won't blow it by sharing the pricing they quoted me, but I thought it was pretty reasonable.

That said, I do have one major gripe with their sales process: Their free trial lasts 7 days. There is no way a company can evaluate a completely new BI system in a week. I begged and pleaded and they would not extend the trial.

I'm not just saying this, but I really really do think we would have bought it if we could have had 30 days. I just can't build enough organizational momentum to spend money on a new system in 7 days.

Sorry about that! Just sent you an email.

You can get a free trial, but it's most definitely not free (on the contrary, the price is a lot higher than i would've expected).

It's not extremely expensive, but it's clearly aimed at enterprise-level companies and not at small businesses.

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