{"id":2448,"date":"2017-02-12T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2017-02-12T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T02:11:07","slug":"redash-free-alternative-bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/redash-free-alternative-bi\/","title":{"rendered":"Redash free alternative to BI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/redash-free-alternative-bi\/redash\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2449\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2449\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/redash-free-alternative-bi\/redash\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/redash.png?fit=568%2C296\" data-orig-size=\"568,296\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"redash\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/redash.png?fit=568%2C296\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2449\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/redash.png?resize=300%2C156\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/redash.png?resize=300%2C156 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/redash.png?w=568 568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Prior to <strong><em>Redash<\/em><\/strong>, we tried to use traditional BI suites and discovered a set of bloated, technically challenged and slow tools\/flows. What we were looking for was a more hacker&#8217;ish way to look at data, so we built one.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Redash<\/em><\/strong> was built to allow fast and easy access to billions of records, that we process and collect using Amazon Redshift (&#8220;petabyte scale data warehouse&#8221; that &#8220;speaks&#8221; PostgreSQL). Today <strong><em>Redash<\/em><\/strong> has support for querying multiple databases, including: Redshift, Google BigQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Graphite, Presto, Google Spreadsheets, Cloudera Impala, Hive and custom scripts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Redash<\/em><\/strong> consists of two parts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Query Editor<\/strong>: think of <a href=\"http:\/\/jsfiddle.net\/\">JS Fiddle<\/a> for SQL queries. It&#8217;s your way to share data in the organization in an open way, by sharing both the dataset and the query that generated it. This way everyone can peer review not only the resulting dataset but also the process that generated it. Also it&#8217;s possible to fork it and generate new datasets and reach new insights.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dashboards\/Visualizations<\/strong>: once you have a dataset, you can create different visualizations out of it, and then combine several visualizations into a single dashboard. Currently it supports charts, pivot table and cohorts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You can try out the demo instance: <a href=\"http:\/\/demo.redash.io\/\">http:\/\/demo.redash.io\/<\/a> (login with any Google account).<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"user-content-getting-started\" class=\"anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/getredash\/redash#getting-started\"><\/a>Getting Started<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/redash.io\/help-onpremise\/setup\/setting-up-redash-instance.html\">Setting up Redash instance<\/a> (includes links to ready made AWS\/GCE images).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/redash.io\/help\/\">Documentation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to Redash, we tried to use traditional BI suites and discovered a set of bloated, technically challenged and slow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[393],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-app","tag-redash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgLsB5-Du","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3642,"url":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/building-a-personal-ai-assistant-that-actually-works-complete-tutorial\/","url_meta":{"origin":2448,"position":0},"title":"Building a Personal AI Assistant That Actually Works \u2013 Complete Tutorial","author":"saifuddin","date":"September 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"We\u2019ve all dreamed of having our own J.A.R.V.I.S.\u2014an AI assistant that listens, thinks, and helps us with daily tasks. 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