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Introduction to Metabase

Peter Gundel on April 06, 2017

When you start a company, setting up a business intelligence (BI) solution is not the first thing most founding teams implement, I guess. Now that ...
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Alan Marazzi

Metabase is not just for startups, at my company we use both Metabase and Power BI for different purposes: the former for personalized insights, alerts and data exploration, while the latter for more formal reporting for executives and managers as well as for tracking company goals.

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Peter Gundel

Nice, cool to know :) I will try to have a look at PowerBI as well.

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Hwang, Geon Gu

My team DBA using it "daily monitoring tool" :D
He handling almost 30 DBs; oracle, mssql and maria.

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Sravan Suhas

Does the Metabase store the whole database in a local file or cache or in-memory to get the queries faster or every time, it goes to request the database ??

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Peter Gundel

When I started using Metabase I think they had no cache so every request hit the database. But the current version has a cache which cases not the database but the requests. I mitigated this issue by creating a read replica of my database.