Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners

Re:Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners by kfk on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:17AM (#20498808)

This looks good. One of your competitors charges about $4,000 per seat per year so this seems to be a good space. If you add the possibility of building user defined nodes with Python you’d have a solid product.

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Re:Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners by bhou on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:23AM (#20498859)

We will release a user-defined function with Javascript in next release. Python is on the roadmap too.

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Re:Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners by kfk on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:30AM (#20498940)

Will you have a server too? Another issue is scheduling, triggers, etc.. You are in this strange space between Excel and “enterprise” ETL like Talend. We are so frustrated with the current poor state of data prep that we went to Python based workflows with the idea of scheduling, triggering, via Airflow. Seems to work well so far. But your IDE for data prep is a bit better positioned than what we use now (Jupyter).

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Re:Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners by millboh on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:41AM (#20499043)

Actually, we provide a command-line interface, you can do pretty much everything the UI does with command-line. And you can also run it in server mode with command-line. In the current version, we haven't covered scheduling yet. A possible solution would be scheduling through Airflow BashOperator in airflow. Or we can implement scheduling solution into the server itself.

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Re:Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners by justaguyhere on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:33AM (#20498966)

woah, that is steep. who is this competitor?

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Re:Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners by alienreborn on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:08PM (#20500588)

Probably Informatica or Talend which are two of the most popular Enterprise ETL tools.

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Re:Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners by ZeroCool2u on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:13PM (#20500624)

Alteryx would be my guess.

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Re:Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners by kfk on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:21PM (#20500721)

Interesting enough both ananas here and Alteryx use a declarative approach. Alteryx is using XML and Ananas YAML

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Re:Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners by ZeroCool2u on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:31AM (#20507003)

The YAML approach seems far more appealing to me honestly, though I'm sure XML was a sane choice at the time.

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