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December 18, 2024

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Metabase

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.
  • 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.
The tool serves as the purpose of what we were looking for. I am giving us eight because it is cumbersome and needs separate deployment on production; otherwise, it creates memory issues for small servers. Apart from this, this is an excellent tool, providing data features some analysts want. Its backend is heavy, but it works pretty smoothly on front-end users.

Do you think Metabase delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Metabase's feature set?

Yes

Did Metabase live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Metabase go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Metabase again?

Yes

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.

Metabase Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
8.5
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
9
8.7
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
9
8.0
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
8.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
9
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
8
9.6
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Report-Level Access Control
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
8.8
REST API
9
Javascript API
9
iFrames
9
Java API
10
Themeable User Interface (UI)
7
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
9

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