What Is Superset
Apache Superset is Airbnb’s open-source data analytics and visualisation platform, and lightweight BI system built in Python. Apache Superset connects to your data sources and gives you the ability to write SQL queries or build a query even without knowledge of SQL, just by choosing what you need from the drop-down lists.
Advantages
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Cloud-Native Platform
Superset is flexible and lets you choose a web server, metadata database engine, message queue, results backend, and caching layer.
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Feature-Rich SQL IDE (SQL-Lab)
SQL-Lab allows you to select a database, schema, and table (previously uploaded) and do an interactive query, preview the data, and also save the query history.
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High Level of Customizability
The architecture of Superset allows users to set an additional asynchronous query caching mechanism to avoid timeouts during long queries.
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Connection to Any Database
Superset connects to all common SQL-speaking databases directly out of the box. It allows integration to MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Redshift, MariaDB, SQLite, etc.
Analytics Data Stack Structure
Superset Alternatives
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