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  5. Metabase vs Periscope vs Piwik

Metabase vs Periscope vs Piwik

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Overview

Piwik
Piwik
Stacks1.4K
Followers512
Votes74
Periscope
Periscope
Stacks45
Followers94
Votes10
Metabase
Metabase
Stacks926
Followers1.2K
Votes271
GitHub Stars44.4K
Forks6.0K

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Detailed Comparison

Piwik
Piwik
Periscope
Periscope
Metabase
Metabase

Matomo (formerly Piwik) is a full-featured PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. At the end of the five-minute installation process, you will be given a JavaScript code.

Periscope is a data analysis tool that uses pre-emptive in-memory caching and statistical sampling to run data analyses really, really fast.

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.

Real time data updates;Customizable Dashboard;All Websites Dashboard;Analytics for e-commerce;Goal conversion tracking;Event Tracking;Site Search Analytics;Geolocation;Pages Transitions;Page Overlay;Site speed & pages speed reports;Track different user interactions
Beautiful Visualizations;Expert Query Tools;Seamless Sharing
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Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
44.4K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
6.0K
Stacks
1.4K
Stacks
45
Stacks
926
Followers
512
Followers
94
Followers
1.2K
Votes
74
Votes
10
Votes
271
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 35
    It's good to have an alternative to google analytics
  • 27
    Self-hosted
  • 10
    Easy setup
  • 2
    Not blocked by Brave
  • 0
    Great customs
Cons
  • 2
    Hard to export data
Pros
  • 6
    Great for learning and teaching people SQL
  • 4
    Gorgeous "share-able" and "embeddable" dashboards
Pros
  • 62
    Database visualisation
  • 45
    Open Source
  • 41
    Easy setup
  • 36
    Dashboard out of the box
  • 23
    Free
Cons
  • 7
    Harder to setup than similar tools
Integrations
No integrations availableNo integrations available
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MongoDB
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift
MySQL
MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server

What are some alternatives to Piwik, Periscope, Metabase?

Google Analytics

Google Analytics

Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.

Mixpanel

Mixpanel

Mixpanel helps companies build better products through data. With our powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain to improve their user experience.

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.

Clicky

Clicky

Clicky Web Analytics gives bloggers and smaller web sites a more personal understanding of their visitors. Clicky has various features that helps stand it apart from the competition specifically Spy and RSS feeds that allow web site owners to get live information about their visitors.

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.

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