Re:Show HN: Open-Source Business Intelligence for BigQuery –...
by endlessvoid94 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:27PM
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I used Looker for years and have always wanted a product priced less for the enterprise and more for developers. I even prototyped a similar tool myself.
Congratulations on the launch. I will be using mprove and will give you feedback along the way.
EDIT: I would love to get in touch with you and learn more about what your plans are. Possibly collaborate if you'd be open to that. I'm [email protected] -- I couldn't find your contact info anywhere!
Re:Show HN: Open-Source Business Intelligence for BigQuery –...
by akalitenya on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:00AM
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Thank you, I sent you an email. I am open to any suggestions - [email protected].
Re:Show HN: Open-Source Business Intelligence for BigQuery –...
by __coaxialcabal on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:35PM
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> Very few BI products have actually surpassed 100 users at target installations. And beyond 1,000 is a real challenge that only few, and even then with a lot of assistance, can support: Tableau, Looker, Microstrategy, maybe Birst, maybe Domo.
At one point Looker was essentially a web application with a query service that could be scaled by adding more servers behind a load balancer. Each end user is essentially working in a shared nothing environment and the query engine is driven by metadata stored in a git repository. Looker itself did not manage cache or analytical processes. All of the real effort to scale was in the database backend.
I met the online Looker demo a few years ago when I was looking for a business intelligence tool for another project.
Looker has a closed source code, so I did not see what algorithm is used to build queries.
I kept those LookML features that I understood and liked. However, in some places LookML is confusing (for example - references and aliases). I made them differently.
Later Looker quit using YAML.
> Very few BI products have actually surpassed 100 users at target installations. And beyond 1,000 is a real challenge that only few, and even then with a lot of assistance, can support: Tableau, Looker, Microstrategy, maybe Birst, maybe Domo.
Scaling that size is not a top priority right now.
> Also, a combination of BI with LookML is a complicated product.
You should have told me this a couple of years ago. It seemed pretty simple.
> So with all that, the question is, is it really worth the struggle?
Yes, If people will use it.
> What's the end vision for supporting this?
In future - maybe "skinny" or "thin" option mentioned here - https://medium.com/open-consensus/2-open-core-definition-exa...
>Why should someone who implements BI for a living bet on this product?
If you can not afford Looker (like me) and want to use similar product.