Next Level Open Source BI Tool.
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
Currently, we're using Metabase to pull reports from the database for our teams for day-to-day meetings and discussions. For us, it was taking a lot of time to pull these reports using Django, and the system was showing limitations. With Metabase, data fetching becomes relatively fast as it interacts with the database directly. Apart from this, the system was quite easy to integrate without the system using APIs and authentication provided by it. We're integrating to show data in a beatified manner now, like using graphs and figures.
Pros
- We're currently using it to fetch reports for our products, such as daily sales, pipeline, visits, and attendance reports.
- Data representation from database directly.
Cons
- Currently, they don't provide page size, i.e., the number of records to be shown at a time in questions, and it isn't very easy. Some filters can implant this.
- Just like above point there must be option for counting total pages by page size.
- Query based filters must be provided.
Likelihood to Recommend
Getting data using query with multiple joins is very fast with Metabase, and role-based access to the reports can be provided to users. The only place it lags right now is the filter for page and page size. This comes with great support for container-based deployment and on-system deployment, too. I did both container and system direct installation, and direct deployment became a bit challenging. On the other hand, it really provides very good support for data representation.
Vetted Review
5 years of experience