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by massaman_yams 2524 days ago
Superset's not the best in terms of looks, but it beats Metabase hands down for functionality.
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Which functionalities would you point out as the most important in Superset that are missing in Metabase?
Depends heavily on your use case, but there are a lot of advanced features.

From a review last year (so some of this may be outdated):

- Broader datasource support - 20 sources in Superset, vs 12 in Metabase

Superset supports:

- view creation by users ('create table as'), as well as materialization

- geo/GIS based visualizations

- day over day, week over week, etc. charting; moving averages, etc.

Superset is missing data catalog-like functions, which metabase has, though I didn't evaluate metabase's data catalog in depth. It also requires you to write SQL, where Metabase includes a query builder UI - though there was a rather strange difference in capabilities within Metabase between the SQL-based charting and the query builder UI.