Metabase vs. Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Metabase
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Metabase aims to bring data tools with the simplicity of consumer products to the crufty world of enterprise business intelligence. Their open source analytics and business intelligence applications connect to most commonly used databases to let anyone in a company ask questions, and create dashboards or nightly emails without knowing SQL. Metabase Enterprise enables the user to embed branded analytics into customer applications.
$85
per month
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Oracle's Business Intelligence Discoverer is an ad- hoc query and analysis reporting tool oriented for end users to have easy access to relational and multi-dimensional data. The product is now end of life. The vendor has stated that Discoverer 11g release 11.1.1.7.0 is the terminal release of Discoverer.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Starter
$85
per month (includes 5 users, then $5 per user, per month)
Starter
$85
per month up to 5 users
Pro
$500
per month up to 10 users
Growth
$749
per month (includes 10 users, then $15 per user, per month)
Enterprise
15,000
per year
Open Source
Free
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MetabaseOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
MetabaseOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Features
MetabaseOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
7.5
4 Ratings
9% below category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
7.9
20 Ratings
4% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.02 Ratings8.017 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.14 Ratings7.717 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.54 Ratings8.020 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.2
4 Ratings
2% above category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
7.9
22 Ratings
2% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.54 Ratings7.021 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.44 Ratings8.022 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.62 Ratings7.514 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.54 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.7
2 Ratings
6% above category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
8.3
22 Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web9.01 Ratings8.021 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Report Versioning7.92 Ratings9.018 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.01 Ratings8.022 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.716 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.7
4 Ratings
8% above category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
8.0
16 Ratings
0% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.54 Ratings8.416 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.02 Ratings7.815 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.62 Ratings7.815 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
9.5
4 Ratings
11% above category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
9.7
22 Ratings
13% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.64 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model10.03 Ratings10.020 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.54 Ratings9.021 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)10.04 Ratings10.017 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
9.0
2 Ratings
15% above category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
8.0
16 Ratings
3% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.01 Ratings7.915 Ratings
Mobile Application10.01 Ratings7.811 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.02 Ratings7.811 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.8
3 Ratings
13% above category average
Oracle Discoverer (discontinued)
7.5
9 Ratings
3% below category average
REST API8.83 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Javascript API9.02 Ratings8.09 Ratings
iFrames9.02 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Java API10.01 Ratings7.08 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.02 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.01 Ratings6.08 Ratings
Best Alternatives
MetabaseOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Small Businesses
Yellowfin
Yellowfin
Score 8.7 out of 10
Yellowfin
Yellowfin
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Reveal
Reveal
Score 10.0 out of 10
Reveal
Reveal
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Kyvos Semantic Layer
Kyvos Semantic Layer
Score 9.5 out of 10
Kyvos Semantic Layer
Kyvos Semantic Layer
Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
MetabaseOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(4 ratings)
8.0
(22 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MetabaseOracle Discoverer (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Metabase
Metabase is an easy tool to use if you are interested in collecting and aggregating data from multiple platforms. It is also easy to set up and start receiving the data results as a report. It is also easy to integrate with other tools that generate visual reports and take the necessary actions based on the data details.
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Discoverer is well suited as a reporting tool where data integration doesn't play a major role. Discoverer suits very well situations where a user has to run a query every day. Discoverer reports can be scheduled and the user can just view the data instead of running the query manually. Also, Discoverer takes away the pain of managing the database credentials. Discoverer is not well suited to situations where the whole enterprise wants to view the same dashboard. Discoverer is more of a departmental BI tool. Discoverer doesn't offer many options to integrate data unless one has to create and handle integration using PL/SQL.
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Pros
Metabase
  • 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.
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Discontinued Products
  • SQL friendly which allows for fast adoption for those users who know how to write in SQL. This makes integration with other programs much easier.
  • Accessing data is very fast even with larger data sets.
  • The layout is clean and organized similar to a spreadsheet which allows for easier viewing and analyzing of the data.
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Cons
Metabase
  • Report Types
  • Updates
  • Colour/Branding
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Discontinued Products
  • There is always room for more scalability and optimization of performance.
  • Oracle BI changes a lot from version to version. A smoother transition into a new version would be very helpful.
  • Oracle BI's reporting tool is a little hard to use at first. The UI/UX of the tool can use improvement.
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Usability
Metabase
Its generally quite easy to use but some SQL is definitely important
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Discontinued Products
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Alternatives Considered
Metabase
It does not stack up against Metabase, they complete each other.
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Discontinued Products
Discoverer was already in place when I joined the company so I was not involved in the selection process. However, I have been involved in the review of Discoverer as compared to alternatives including Business Objects, OBIEE, and SSRS. On a cost benefit analysis Discoverer always came out on top. Changing to another tool never provided enough additional functionality to overcome the cost of conversion and ongoing maintenance.
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Return on Investment
Metabase
  • It is serving us whatever we're looking for, and we've recommended many organizations to implement it if they want better data analytics as it provides better functionality than we will build.
  • As a negative it gets difficult to get control over data to be fetch initially.
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Discontinued Products
  • We have used Discoverer to respond to state sales and use tax audits and saved the company more than the cost of the product. Discoverer has thus assisted in our objective of managing costs.
  • Discoverer is used to provide reports for EEOC reporting assisting our goal of complying with all government requirements.
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