zdbc VS superset

OpenZiti could be the ticket, it's an open source solution that provides an overlay network built on zero trust principles (more secure than a VPN). Bonus, we took one of our SDKs and wrapped it around JDBC so that for users to access the DB, they do not need to have a VPN client; they just use 'ZDBC' instead of JDBC - https://github.com/openziti-test-kitchen/zdbc

You can use agents or their ZDBC, which is one of the most amazing things (as they work with APIs you can embeded their SDK into your code, so no agents are required).

- Example zitifications: https://github.com/openziti-test-kitchen/zdbc & https://openziti.github.io/articles/zitification/prometheus/part1.html

Would be great to have thoughts, comments, etc - https://github.com/openziti-test-kitchen/zdbc or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6o5z6iXYPQ&ab_channel=Percona

Congrats on the launch. Well done.

another security approach is to enable your customers to close their inbound firewall ports and link listeners. this helps cloud and on prem models have far stronger security.

example here (disclosure: i am a founder of the company behind this solution) with both open source and OEM/SaaS models:

https://github.com/openziti-incubator/zdbc (code for one implementation - a wrapper around the JDBC drivers)

https://netfoundry.io/zero-trust-database-security/ (blog post with links to developer example video, whitepaper, etc)

Superset is absolutely phenomenal. I really hope Microsoft eventually releases all of their customizations they made to it internally to the OS community someday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY0SSvSUkMA

https://github.com/apache/superset/discussions/20094

I recently ran a little shootout between Superset, Metabase, and Lightdash. All have nontrivial weaknesses but I ended up picking Lightdash.

Superset the best of them at _data visualization_ but I honestly found it almost useless for self-serve _BI_ by business users. This issue on how to do joins in Superset (with stalebot making a mess XD) is everything difficult about Superset for BI in a nutshell. https://github.com/apache/superset/issues/8645

Metabase is pretty great and it's definitely the right choice for a startup looking to get low cost BI set up. It still has a very table centric view, but feels built for _BI_ rather than visualization alone.

Lightdash has significant warts (YAML, pivoting being done in the frontend, no symmetric aggregates) but the Looker inspiration is obvious and it makes it easy to present _groups of tables_ to business users ready to rock. I liked Looker before Google acquired it. My business users are comfortable with star and snowflake schemas (not that they know those words) and it was easy to drop Lightdash on top of our existing data warehouse.

Or like not being able to delete a user without running some SQL:

https://github.com/apache/superset/issues/13345

Almostl instantly run into this issue setting up a test instance of Superset. And the issue has been around for years.

Are you interested in trying out Superset, but you're intimidated by the local setup process? Worry not! Superset needs some initial setup to install locally, but I've got a streamlined way to get started - using the makefile! This file contains a set of scripts to simplify the setup process.

Recently I discovered BigQuery public datasets - just over 200 datasets available for directly querying via SQL. I think this is a great thing! I can connect these direct to an analytics platform (we use Apache Superset which uses Python SQLAlchemy under the hood) for example and just start dashboarding.

if they don't want to pay for powerbi, can try something like https://superset.apache.org/

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