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I totally agree, columnar databases have rendered "traditional" BI tool irrelevant and required the analysis and visualization layer to adapt to billions of records accessible via SQL.

We (EverythingMe) open sourced our own internal data visualization and collaboration tool which is used with our own Redshift setup - https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash

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I see your point, but what you are saying is very extreme.

Look no further than Tableau's valuation. The "traditional" BI market is still huge, and if anything, direct SQL-level access benefits a small portion of the entire BI user universe.

I might have taken it to the extreme (always a good discussion kick-starter), but aamof we did try Tableau an a range of other tools, and being a startup that uses data and most if not all of its people are OK with SQL we managed to be a lot more productive and transparent with re:dash.

There's a blog post about the motivations behind building it here - http://geeks.everything.me/2013/12/05/introducing_redash/

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