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Metabase is great - and another open source dashboard solution I'm a big fan of: https://redash.io/

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)

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Weird, there is no evident link to the source code in the redash.io page, but you can find it if you search: https://github.com/getredash/redash They give you an already configured virtual machine for free, but it doesn't receive bug fixes. The install process must be a mess.

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?

Install process for redash doesn't look too bad (if you can give it it's own vm): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getredash/redash/master/se... [ would be easy enough to transform that in to an ansible role ]

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

What do you mean by reports?

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.

Most people don't care about the source code, but we have a huge link to the setup guide [1] (and there is a link to GitHub in the footer).

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-...

The github link is a really hidden small icon. I probably also don't care about the source, but if it is hidden, it looks like it is difficult to get and/or install.

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.

Why do you think Data Studio is quicker or better than Tableau or Power BI at this same scenario?

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

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