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Chartio vs Superset: What are the differences?
Developers describe Chartio as "A powerful Business Intelligence tool anyone can use". Chartio is a cloud-based business analytics solution on a mission to enable everyone within an organization to access, explore, transform and visualize their data. On the other hand, Superset is detailed as "Data exploration and visualization platform, by Airbnb". Superset's main goal is to make it easy to slice, dice and visualize data. It empowers users to perform analytics at the speed of thought.
Chartio and Superset belong to "Business Intelligence" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Chartio are:
- Direct connections to your data warehouse or database (Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres, MySQL and many more)
- Intuitive drag-and-drop interface for data exploration with Visual SQL as well as direct SQL interface
- Powerful data pipeline for data transformations
On the other hand, Superset provides the following key features:
- A rich set of visualizations to analyze your data, as well as a flexible way to extend the capabilities
- An extensible, high granularity security model allowing intricate rules on who can access which features, and integration with major authentication providers (database, OpenID, LDAP, OAuth & REMOTE_USER through Flask AppBuiler)
- A simple semantic layer, allowing to control how data sources are displayed in the UI, by defining which fields should show up in which dropdown and which aggregation and function (metrics) are made available to the user
Superset is an open source tool with 25.1K GitHub stars and 4.83K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Superset's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Chartio
- Great UI2
- Affordable for a BI solution2
- Join multiple databases2
Pros of Superset
- Awesome interactive filtering13
- Free9
- Wide SQL database support6
- Shareable & editable dashboards6
- Great for data collaborating on data exploration5
- User & Role Management3
- Easy to share charts & dasboards3
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Cons of Chartio
Cons of Superset
- Link diff db together "Data Modeling "4
- It is difficult to install on the server3
- Ugly GUI3








