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by apahwa 2521 days ago
why not use Superset?
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Superset's very powerful, but other options can be easier for common use cases.
ever try to setup superset?
Yeah I deployed it to Kubernetes the other day.

I got it up in a few hours, and the included docker (compose) files are helpful, but it was a frustrating experience for a couple of reasons:

* There is some legal issue with the Apache foundation that’s preventing them publishing to PyPi (details about this were lacking).

* As a result, the provided dockerfile uses a very outdated version.

* Installing any missing dependencies means essentially building your own dockerfile anyways: in my case, it was the bane of my life Snowflake DB dependencies...

* Maybe it’s just me, but figuring out how to go from single-container ephemeral deployment to backend celery workers, external DB for persistence and a redos instance for caching (the recommended production setup) was frustrating to no end

* There are hosted versions you can use.

That said, we’re still going ahead with Superset, because it’s an improvement over the costly, ugly and over-opinionated alternative that is Tableau...

yeah I was hoping for more feedback on Superset and with Druid as well. They look great but there's very little buzz about them.