Looker vs. Redash

For less evolved reporting, it is not bad at all. It is not designed to scale, fully. I mean that as long as you do not intend to scale, it is a good product for your company. Log aggregation level reporting is not suited for Looker. Customer facing data reporting is. As long as the reporting is not too multi-dimensional, Looker is good.

Incentivized

Redash is well suited to situations where metrics are tracked on daily, weekly and monthly basis. Alerts can be set to emails which helps stakeholders to monitor performance on a frequent basis. It is less appropriate for cases where only dashboards are needed. Redash comes into picture where individuals can query and check data at the same time.

• It's on-demand and in the cloud, we don't have to mess with AMIs or scaling issues
• Looker's data domain creating tool is better than anything we've seen
• LookML, Looker's specialized language is incredibly extensible and allows us to connect and visualize almost any data type

Incentivized

• Great Query Editor with Autocomplete feature
• Very easy to setup and quickly connect to variety of data sources
• Quick Dashboards with Simple UI which can be easily shareable

Incentivized

• Mobile viewing is HTML based, not always highly viewable.
• Basic operations can be difficult to achieve. There is a function called table calculations which allows this.
• Running on a single server, the entire instance can slow down if even one user schedules a large dashboard.

Incentivized

• You need to have a good command over SQL to use Redash but if there could be some way where people can just pull data and do slice dice.
• It would be nice to have an excel kind of filters when all data is fetched.
• Some things like easy to customise the column names.

Incentivized

We've been very happy with Looker so far, and all teams in the organization are starting to see its value, and use it on a frequent basis. It has quickly become our accessible "source of truth" for all data/metrics.

Incentivized

Nontechnical users can create reports easily. Can create customized reports individually or on the whole for the group. Slicing and dicing data through Looker fairly simple. Drill-downs are much better than anticipated. Especially heat map drill-downs, became most popular within the company, considering the company is a location analytics ad tech company.

Incentivized

Looker support specialists are heroes. They are knowledgeable, smart, and always vouch for your success. The availability is super quick, and even if there is no current solution for my problem, they will address it and voice it as feedback for a product.

Incentivized

Looker stacks up very well against the other tools we have evaluated and used. All the tools have their own pros and cons. Looker had a better edge in terms of visualizations when we chose to use it. After several updates, other tools began to have newer features. Looker still stands competitive.

Incentivized

I was not a part of the decision-making team who decided to go with Redash.

Incentivized

• The platform allows you to create visual representations of your data and store them in charts, graphs and maps.
• Gives the business owner the flexibility to visualize their data in a real time manner, thereby enabling the business owner to be on top of their data and understand its dynamics.

Incentivized

• Cost effective
• One tool for multiple purpose
• Easy access provision