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Looker vs SQueaLy

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Overview

Looker
Looker
Stacks632
Followers656
Votes9
SQueaLy
SQueaLy
Stacks0
Followers7
Votes0
GitHub Stars584
Forks47

Looker vs SQueaLy: What are the differences?

Looker: Pioneering the next generation of BI, data discovery & data analytics. We've built a unique data modeling language, connections to today's fastest analytical databases, and a service that you can deploy on any infrastructure, and explore on any device. Plus, we'll help you every step of the way; SQueaLy: Fast track analytics for business. SQueaLy is an open-source, self-deployable application for developers. It is a micro service for business intelligence and analytics which uses SQL queries to generate reporting APIs with fine-grained security.

Looker and SQueaLy can be primarily classified as "Business Intelligence" tools.

SQueaLy is an open source tool with 567 GitHub stars and 45 GitHub forks. Here's a link to SQueaLy's open source repository on GitHub.

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Advice on Looker, SQueaLy

Mohan
Mohan

CEO at UPJAUNT

Nov 10, 2020

Needs adviceonFirebaseFirebaseGoogle BigQueryGoogle BigQueryData StudioData Studio

We are a consumer mobile app IOS/Android startup. The app is instrumented with branch and Firebase. We use Google BigQuery. We are looking at tools that can support engagement and cohort analysis at an early stage price which we can grow with. Data Studio is the default but it would seem Looker provides more power. We don't have much insight into Amplitude other than the fact it is a popular PM tool. Please provide some insight.

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Vojtech
Vojtech

Head of Data at Mews

Nov 24, 2019

Decided

Power BI is really easy to start with. If you have just several Excel sheets or CSV files, or you build your first automated pipeline, it is actually quite intuitive to build your first reports.

And as we have kept growing, all the additional features and tools were just there within the Azure platform and/or Office 365.

Since we started building Mews, we have already passed several milestones in becoming start up, later also a scale up company and now getting ready to grow even further, and during all these phases Power BI was just the right tool for us.

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Michael
Michael

CTO at Barsala

Oct 2, 2020

Needs advice

Our engineering team is deciding which data warehouse to integrate with our system, and the BI tool to interface with it.

Preliminary question - Is it best practice to try and consolidate all data to be analyzed in one location (warehouse) then have the BI tool just interface with that one source to draw insights? Know some BI tools can connect to multiple but not sure if that's a crutch until teams are able to create a single destination for all of their data

Business Requirements

  • We're looking to create dashboards for each company KPI - with the primary KPI as the highlight of the dashboard, then other downstream metrics that impact it alongside of it
  • We're looking to sync data across the platforms we work with: Stripe, Twilio, Sendgrid, Salesforce, Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Paypal, Business Amazon account (not AWS)
  • For the BI tool, we want to be able to share dashboards, connect different API's and databases, have flexible date ranges, and a nice to have is easy to interface with if team members don't know SQL

Current stack

  • Segment to route user events to Google Adwords, Facebook Ads, Mixpanel, and S3
  • Mixpanel to analyze web and mobile metrics
  • Fullstory for enhanced mobile and web visibility
  • Salesforce as a CRM - majority of our data lies within here

Current thoughts

  • AWS Redshift seems to be well adopted, integrate with most tools, and we're already building on AWS so it seems to make sense. BigQuery seemed more expensive and Snowflake didn't seem terrible but wasn't in AWS ecosystem
  • Looker has looked the most impressive on the BI tool side, but open to discussion
  • We're looking to do this alongside other projects with an in-house engineer and a contractor - we're a bit limited on the technical resources and we're looking to at least get a first pass in and eventually enhance the integration as we have bandwidth

Guidance / advice is appreciated, even if it's only for data warehousing or BI tools specifically (and not both)

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Detailed Comparison

Looker
Looker
SQueaLy
SQueaLy

We've built a unique data modeling language, connections to today's fastest analytical databases, and a service that you can deploy on any infrastructure, and explore on any device. Plus, we'll help you every step of the way.

SQueaLy is an open-source, self-deployable application for developers. It is a micro service for business intelligence and analytics which uses SQL queries to generate reporting APIs with fine-grained security.

Zero-lag access to data;No limits;Personalized setup and support;No uploading, warehousing, or indexing;Deploy anywhere;Works in any browser, anywhere;Personalized access points
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Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
584
GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
47
Stacks
632
Stacks
0
Followers
656
Followers
7
Votes
9
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 4
    Real time in app customer chat support
  • 4
    GitHub integration
  • 1
    Reduces the barrier of entry to utilizing data
Cons
  • 3
    Price
No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available
Heroku
Heroku
Amazon Athena
Amazon Athena
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift
MySQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
SQLite
SQLite
Swagger UI
Swagger UI

What are some alternatives to Looker, SQueaLy?

Metabase

Metabase

It 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.

Superset

Superset

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.

Cube

Cube

Cube: the universal semantic layer that makes it easy to connect BI silos, embed analytics, and power your data apps and AI with context.

Power BI

Power BI

It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.

Mode

Mode

Created by analysts, for analysts, Mode is a SQL-based analytics tool that connects directly to your database. Mode is designed to alleviate the bottlenecks in today's analytical workflow and drive collaboration around data projects.

Google Datastudio

Google Datastudio

It lets you create reports and data visualizations. Data Sources are reusable components that connect a report to your data, such as Google Analytics, Google Sheets, Google AdWords and so forth. You can unlock the power of your data with interactive dashboards and engaging reports that inspire smarter business decisions.

AskNed

AskNed

AskNed is an analytics platform where enterprise users can get answers from their data by simply typing questions in plain English.

Shiny

Shiny

It is an open source R package that provides an elegant and powerful web framework for building web applications using R. It helps you turn your analyses into interactive web applications without requiring HTML, CSS, or JavaScript knowledge.

Redash

Redash

Redash helps you make sense of your data. Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company.

Azure Synapse

Azure Synapse

It is an analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. It brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.

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