I'm currently using https://metabase.com/ for this which I've found to be really easy to use. Will be interesting to see how this compares.
Obvious advantage of metabase is that it's all local.
Obvious advantage of metabase is that it's all local.
Data Studio has a different set of strengths: It's the quickest way I can get an interactive viz published with 0 infrastructure needed. Just build your dashboard, add some controls, and publish it to your closest connections privately, or publicly to the whole world. It will scale without any resource allocation on your side.
(disclosure: I'm Felipe Hoffa and I work for Google Cloud https://twitter.com/felipehoffa)
(in a parallel thread, someone else mentions how they use re:dash and Data Studio https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15446296)
Metabase has a link to their repository in the first page of https://metabase.com/ Just based in this fact I would prefer Metabase.
How do they compare to generate high quality reports?
Agree metabase wins though: apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless && curl http://downloads.metabase.com/v0.26.1/metabase.jar && java -jar metabase.jar
If by reports you mean a daily email sent with a table and some graphs attached them both suck. The only tool that I know that excels on this is Reporting Services from Microsoft.
But they are really OK for dashboards and visualizations. Metabase has a pulse feature where you can schedule to send a visualization to email or slack, but not something very fancy.
Also I'm not sure where you bring the "but it doesn't receive bug fixes" statement from? We have a documented upgrade process [2] for the images you create using our documented setup guide.
[1] https://redash.io/help-onpremise/setup/setting-up-redash-ins... [2] https://redash.io/help-onpremise/maintenance/how-to-upgrade-...
Your front page says of the paid version: "Don't worry about installations, hosting and upgrades. All plans include a 30-day free trial. No credit card required."
My first impression was that it is hard to upgrade. Maybe not true, but it is what is communicated by the site.
Frankly it has become table stakes to do that.
I do appreciate your reply though, maybe there are new or differentiated capabilities. Would be interesting to hear.
> I can get an interactive viz published with 0 infrastructure needed. Just build your dashboard, add some controls, and publish it