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Cube.js vs Metabase: What are the differences?
Cube.js: Open Source Analytics Framework. Cube.js is an analytics layer for modern applications. It supplies building blocks to add analytics features into any application you create. It is designed to work with large-scale data sets and implements various optimization techniques; Metabase: An open-source business intelligence tool. Metabase is an easy way to generate charts and dashboards, ask simple ad hoc queries without using SQL, and see detailed information about rows in your Database. You can set it up in under 5 minutes, and then give yourself and others a place to ask simple questions and understand the data your application is generating.
Cube.js and Metabase can be categorized as "Business Intelligence" tools.
Cube.js and Metabase are both open source tools. It seems that Metabase with 15.6K GitHub stars and 2.09K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Cube.js with 2.87K GitHub stars and 174 GitHub forks.
Pros of Cube.js
- API8
- Open Source6
- Visualization agnostic6
- Caching6
- Rollups orchestration4
Pros of Metabase
- Database visualisation59
- Open Source43
- Easy setup40
- Dashboard out of the box35
- Free22
- Simple14
- Support for many dbs8
- Easy embedding7
- It's good6
- Easy6
- AGPL : wont help with adoption but depends on your goal5
- BI doesn't get easier than that5
- Multiple integrations4
- Google analytics integration4
- Easy set up4
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Cons of Cube.js
- Incomplete documentation1
- Doesn't support filtering on left joins1
- Poor performance1
- No ability to update "cubes" in runtime1
- Cannot use as a lib - only HTTP1
Cons of Metabase
- Harder to setup than similar tools5
