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by kfk 2527 days ago
This looks good. One of your competitors charges about $4,000 per seat per year so this seems to be a good space. If you add the possibility of building user defined nodes with Python you’d have a solid product.
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We will release a user-defined function with Javascript in next release. Python is on the roadmap too.
Will you have a server too? Another issue is scheduling, triggers, etc.. You are in this strange space between Excel and “enterprise” ETL like Talend. We are so frustrated with the current poor state of data prep that we went to Python based workflows with the idea of scheduling, triggering, via Airflow. Seems to work well so far. But your IDE for data prep is a bit better positioned than what we use now (Jupyter).
Actually, we provide a command-line interface, you can do pretty much everything the UI does with command-line. And you can also run it in server mode with command-line. In the current version, we haven't covered scheduling yet. A possible solution would be scheduling through Airflow BashOperator in airflow. Or we can implement scheduling solution into the server itself.
woah, that is steep. who is this competitor?
Probably Informatica or Talend which are two of the most popular Enterprise ETL tools.
Alteryx would be my guess.
Interesting enough both ananas here and Alteryx use a declarative approach. Alteryx is using XML and Ananas YAML
The YAML approach seems far more appealing to me honestly, though I'm sure XML was a sane choice at the time.