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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Metabase

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AMetabase 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

    Amazon Redshift

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Redshift is a hosted data warehouse solution, from Amazon Web Services.

    $0.24

    per GB per month

    Pricing
    MetabaseAmazon Redshift
    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
    Redshift Managed Storage
    $0.24
    per GB per month
    Current Generation
    $0.25 - $13.04
    per hour
    Previous Generation
    $0.25 - $4.08
    per hour
    Redshift Spectrum
    $5.00
    per terabyte of data scanned
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MetabaseAmazon Redshift
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    MetabaseAmazon Redshift
    Considered Both Products
    Metabase
    No answer on this topic
    Amazon AWS
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    78%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    78%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    Features
    MetabaseAmazon Redshift
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Metabase and Amazon Redshift
    Feature
    Metabase
    7.5
    4 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Amazon Redshift
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates6.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Metabase and Amazon Redshift
    Feature
    Metabase
    8.3
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Amazon Redshift
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Metabase and Amazon Redshift
    Feature
    Metabase
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Amazon Redshift
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Metabase and Amazon Redshift
    Feature
    Metabase
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Amazon Redshift
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Metabase and Amazon Redshift
    Feature
    Metabase
    9.5
    4 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Amazon Redshift
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Metabase and Amazon Redshift
    Feature
    Metabase
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Amazon Redshift
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Metabase and Amazon Redshift
    Feature
    Metabase
    8.8
    3 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Amazon Redshift
    -
    Ratings
    REST API8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    MetabaseAmazon Redshift
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Snowflake
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Snowflake
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MetabaseAmazon Redshift
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MetabaseAmazon Redshift
    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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    Amazon AWS
    If the number of connections is expected to be low, but the amounts of data are large or projected to grow it is a good solutions especially if there is previous exposure to PostgreSQL. Speaking of Postgres, Redshift is based on several versions old releases of PostgreSQL so the developers would not be able to take advantage of some of the newer SQL language features. The queries need some fine-tuning still, indexing is not provided, but playing with sorting keys becomes necessary. Lastly, there is no notion of the Primary Key in Redshift so the business must be prepared to explain why duplication occurred (must be vigilant for)
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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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    Amazon AWS
    • [Amazon] Redshift has Distribution Keys. If you correctly define them on your tables, it improves Query performance. For instance, we can define Mapping/Meta-data tables with Distribution-All Key, so that it gets replicated across all the nodes, for fast joins and fast query results.
    • [Amazon] Redshift has Sort Keys. If you correctly define them on your tables along with above Distribution Keys, it further improves your Query performance. It also has Composite Sort Keys and Interleaved Sort Keys, to support various use cases
    • [Amazon] Redshift is forked out of PostgreSQL DB, and then AWS added "MPP" (Massively Parallel Processing) and "Column Oriented" concepts to it, to make it a powerful data store.
    • [Amazon] Redshift has "Analyze" operation that could be performed on tables, which will update the stats of the table in leader node. This is sort of a ledger about which data is stored in which node and which partition with in a node. Up to date stats improves Query performance.
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    Cons
    Metabase
    • Report Types
    • Updates
    • Colour/Branding
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    Amazon AWS
    • We've experienced some problems with hanging queries on Redshift Spectrum/external tables. We've had to roll back to and old version of Redshift while we wait for AWS to provide a patch.
    • Redshift's dialect is most similar to that of PostgreSQL 8. It lacks many modern features and data types.
    • Constraints are not enforced. We must rely on other means to verify the integrity of transformed tables.
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    Usability
    Metabase
    Its generally quite easy to use but some SQL is definitely important
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    Amazon AWS
    Just very happy with the product, it fits our needs perfectly. Amazon pioneered the cloud and we have had a positive experience using RedShift. Really cool to be able to see your data housed and to be able to query and perform administrative tasks with ease.
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    Support Rating
    Metabase
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon AWS
    The support was great and helped us in a timely fashion. We did use a lot of online forums as well, but the official documentation was an ongoing one, and it did take more time for us to look through it. We would have probably chosen a competitor product had it not been for the great support
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    Alternatives Considered
    Metabase
    It does not stack up against Metabase, they complete each other.
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    Amazon AWS
    Than Vertica: Redshift is cheaper and AWS integrated (which was a plus because the whole company was on AWS).
    Than BigQuery: Redshift has a standard SQL interface, though recently I heard good things about BigQuery and would try it out again.
    Than Hive: Hive is great if you are in the PB+ range, but latencies tend to be much slower than Redshift and it is not suited for ad-hoc applications.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Metabase
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon AWS
    Redshift is relatively cheaper tool but since the pricing is dynamic, there is always a risk of exceeding the cost. Since most of our team is using it as self serve and there is no continuous tracking by a dedicated team, it really needs time & effort on analyst's side to know how much it is going to cost.
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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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    Amazon AWS
    • Our company is moving to the AWS infrastructure, and in this context moving the warehouse environments to Redshift sounds logical regardless of the cost.
    • Development organizations have to operate in the Dev/Ops mode where they build and support their apps at the same time.
    • Hard to estimate the overall ROI of moving to Redshift from my position. However, running Redshift seems to be inexpensive compared to all the licensing and hardware costs we had on our RDBMS platform before Redshift.
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