Metabase vs. Wolfram Mathematica

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Metabase
Score 7.9 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
Mathematica
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Wolfram's flagship product Mathematica is a modern technical computing application featuring a flexible symbolic coding language and a wide array of graphing and data visualization capabilities.
$1,520
per year
Pricing
MetabaseWolfram Mathematica
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
Standard Cloud
$1,520
per year
Standard Desktop
$3,040
one-time fee
Standard Desktop & Cloud
$3,344
one-time fee
Mathematica Enterprise Edition
$8,150.00
one-time fee
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MetabaseMathematica
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts available for students and educational institutions. The Network Edition reduce per-user license costs through shared deployment across any number of machines on a local-area network.
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Community Pulse
MetabaseWolfram Mathematica
Features
MetabaseWolfram Mathematica
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
7.6
4 Ratings
7% below category average
Wolfram Mathematica
9.9
6 Ratings
20% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.02 Ratings9.84 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.14 Ratings9.94 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.64 Ratings9.96 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.1
4 Ratings
1% above category average
Wolfram Mathematica
9.9
9 Ratings
24% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.54 Ratings9.98 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.44 Ratings9.98 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.22 Ratings9.97 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.44 Ratings9.99 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
Wolfram Mathematica
9.3
8 Ratings
13% above category average
Publish to Web9.01 Ratings9.97 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Report Versioning7.92 Ratings9.97 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.01 Ratings8.95 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.5
4 Ratings
7% above category average
Wolfram Mathematica
9.9
9 Ratings
24% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.54 Ratings9.99 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.02 Ratings9.98 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.32 Ratings9.98 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.32 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
Wolfram Mathematica
-
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 Product A and Product B
Metabase
9.0
2 Ratings
15% above category average
Wolfram Mathematica
-
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 Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.8
3 Ratings
13% above category average
Wolfram Mathematica
-
Ratings
REST API8.73 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
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User Ratings
MetabaseWolfram Mathematica
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(4 ratings)
9.9
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
MetabaseWolfram Mathematica
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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Wolfram
We are the judgement that Wolfram Mathematica is despite many critics based on the paradigms selected a mark in the fields of the markets for computations of all kind. Wolfram Mathematica is even a choice in fields where other bolide systems reign most of the market. Wolfram Mathematica offers rich flexibility and internally standardizes the right methodologies for his user community. Wolfram Mathematica is not cheap and in need of a hard an long learner journey. That makes it weak in comparison with of-the-shelf-solution packages or even other programming languages. But for systematization of methods Wolfram Mathematica is far in front of almost all the other. Scientist and interested people are able to develop themself further and Wolfram Matheamatica users are a human variant for themself. The reach out for modern mathematics based science is deep and a unique unified framework makes the whole field of mathematics accessable comparable to the brain of Albert Einstein. The paradigms incorporated are the most efficients and consist in assembly on the market. The mathematics is covering and fullfills not just education requirements but the demands and needs of experts.
Mathematica is incompatible with other systems for mCAx and therefore the borders between the systems are hard to overcome. Wolfram Mathematica should be consider one of the more open systems because other code can be imported and run but on the export side it is rathe incompatible by design purposes. A better standard for all that might solve the crisis but there is none in sight. Selection of knowledge of what works will be in the future even more focussed and general system might be one the lossy side. Knowledge of esthetics of what will be in the highest demand in necessary and Wolfram is not a leader in this field of science. Mathematics leves from gathering problems from application fields and less from the glory of itself and the formalization of this.
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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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Wolfram
  • It allows straightforward integration of analytic analysis of algebraic expressions and their numerical implemented.
  • Supports varying programmatic paradigms, so one can choose what best fits the problem or task: pure functions, procedural programming, list processing, and even (with a bit of setup) object-oriented programming.
  • The extensive and rich tools for graphical rendering make it very easy to not just get 2D and 3D renderings of final output, but also to do quick-and-dirty 2D and 3D rendering of intermediate results and/or debugging results.
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Cons
Metabase
  • Report Types
  • Updates
  • Colour/Branding
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Wolfram
  • Should include more libraries and functions.
  • Should include more functions that can be used in Machine Learning.
  • Should include more functions that can be used in Data Science.
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Usability
Metabase
Its generally quite easy to use but some SQL is definitely important
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Wolfram
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Metabase
No answers on this topic
Wolfram
Wolfram Mathematica is a nice software package. It has very nice features and easy to install and use in your machine. Besides this, there is a nice support from Wolfram. They come to the university frequently to give seminars in Mathematica. I think this is the best thing they are doing. That is very helpful for graduate and undergraduate students who are using Mathematica in their research.
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Alternatives Considered
Metabase
It does not stack up against Metabase, they complete each other.
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Wolfram
We have evaluated and are using in some cases the Python language in concert with the Jupyter notebook interface. For UI, we using libraries like React to create visually stunning visualizations of such models. Mathematica compares favorably to this alternative in terms of speed of development. Mathematica compares unfavorably to this alternative in terms of license costs.
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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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Wolfram
  • Easy to solve huge mathematical equations, so it saved time there
  • Doing analysis and plotting graphs is also another plus point
  • Learning is very slow, and it took lot of time to learn its scripting language
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