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I've never heard of Metabase. From the GitHub page, I can see it's very popular and looks great!

I'm watching videos on their website and it looks like, that Metabase uses browser as a front end, SkyAlt is native. I'm not sure If you can create/edit tables/columns in Metabase, it looks more like a "import data and create dashboards". SkyAlt is more like Airtable meets Tableau.

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Correct metabase is readonly. And i think thats a good thing. For BI tools such as these you have many types of users and generally want it to be strictly readonly.

Yes. But you have some users that want writetoo. Nice to have the option.

Right now, SkyAlt can't write to the remote databases and in the future, it will be able to write only data, not change a structure(create/remove columns, etc.).

This will lead to the option to build internal tools. Adding dashboards and writing to remote databases should be easy to program, but right now I focus on stability, usability and documentation for current features.

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