Show HN: Cluvio – A new cloud analytics platform based on SQL and R

Re:Show HN: Cluvio – A new cloud analytics platform based on... by Maarten88 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:18PM (#12687646)

The market for data visualization tools is crowded and has gotten very competitive in the past year. Specifically, how does Cluvio compare to Microsoft PowerBI? That also (already) has support for R, supports many more data sources, seems to be more polished/mature, and is a lot less expensive, it even has a free desktop version.

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Re:Show HN: Cluvio – A new cloud analytics platform based on... by runako on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:30PM (#12687738)

I was curious and hadn't heard about PowerBI before, so I checked the site just now.

Some obvious differences: PowerBI is priced per user, so it can get expensive fast (assuming you need the pro features). Also, there doesn't appear to be a cloud version of PowerBI so you'd be managing it yourself. PowerBI doesn't support AWS Redshift or Aurora. And unless I'm mistaken, PowerBI desktop is Windows-only.

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Re:Show HN: Cluvio – A new cloud analytics platform based on... by Maarten88 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:35PM (#12689083)

You should read a bit further, I think only your last assumption is correct: there is indeed no desktop client for Mac, so you have to use Windows to design dashboards/reports. There are web, native windows, android and ios interactive report viewers. With a single paid license you can publish to the cloud and make reports available to anyone, even embed it in a website or app. There's even a Redshift connector in preview.

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