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Dataform vs Periscope: What are the differences?
What is Dataform? *A framework for managing SQL based data operations *. It helps you manage all data processes in your cloud data warehouse. Publish tables, write data tests and automate complex SQL workflows in a few minutes, so you can spend more time on analytics and less time managing infrastructure.
What is Periscope? Periscope plugs directly into your database and lets you run, save and share analyses over billions of data rows in seconds. Periscope is a data analysis tool that uses pre-emptive in-memory caching and statistical sampling to run data analyses really, really fast.
Dataform belongs to "Database Tools" category of the tech stack, while Periscope can be primarily classified under "Business Intelligence".
Some of the features offered by Dataform are:
- Version ontrol
- Scheduling
- Notifications and logging
On the other hand, Periscope provides the following key features:
- Beautiful Visualizations
- Expert Query Tools
- Seamless Sharing
Dataform is an open source tool with 77 GitHub stars and 7 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Dataform's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Dataform
Pros of Periscope
- Great for learning and teaching people SQL6
- Gorgeous "share-able" and "embeddable" dashboards4