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Periscope vs Redash: What are the differences?
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.
What is Redash? Easily query an existing database, share the dataset and visualize it in different ways. 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.
Periscope and Redash can be primarily classified as "Business Intelligence" tools.
Some of the features offered by Periscope are:
- Beautiful Visualizations
- Expert Query Tools
- Seamless Sharing
On the other hand, Redash provides the following key features:
- Query Editor
- Dashboards/Visualizations
- Alerts
Redash is an open source tool with 13.1K GitHub stars and 2.17K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Redash's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Redash has a broader approval, being mentioned in 38 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Periscope, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Periscope
- Great for learning and teaching people SQL6
- Gorgeous "share-able" and "embeddable" dashboards4
Pros of Redash
- Open Source3
- SQL Friendly3
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Cons of Periscope
Cons of Redash
- All results are loaded into RAM before displaying1
- Memory Leaks1