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That looks great! I very much prefer the canonical SQL for querying data in a visual way, rather than a "generic" custom querying language. Does it send the query directly to the db? Is there any transformation? Does it mean it only works with sql databases?

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Yes, Redash sends the query as is to the database. It currently supports PostgreSQL (& Redshift), MySQL, BigQuery, MongoDB, Graphite and Python scripts. Also someone currently working on ElasticSearch support.

The MonogDB & Graphite support is crude, but exists.

I'm the project maintainer, feel free to ask if you have any questions.

Yeah it's basically just a web based SQL front end. It also integrates with Google accounts very well which was a big plus for us.

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