I want to know difference between metabase and apache/incubator-superset, that is because I need to know which one install and try for educational task with my students
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Metabase installation is a no-brainer.
SuperSet took much longer to get going (with MSSQL).
I played with it a while but I found the UI to be quite off-putting compared to Metabase.
Depends on your use-case/objective. My objective is to bring user-friendly analytics to as many people in the company as possible.
And I found Metabase to suit this use-case better than SuperSet.
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The main difference is that Superset needs quite a bit of technical know-how to set up and manage. On the other hand, Metabase is super user-friendly—anyone can install it and start querying data without needing any tech skills.
Btw, we are reviving this topic because we have a couple of new resources that may be useful:
I recently did a market overview for a customer. Included Metabase, Superset & Grafana.
For our project, Superset's major limitation was the very flat way everything is organised. There's no notion of a folder/collection hierarchy. Very quickly gets cluttered. Pain for configuring security too. This was our major sticking point.
There's no proper 'binning' for histograms.
Row level security is done well but didn't work for us as no option of using a lookup. Meant a big overhead.
We also had some odd problems with the formatting. Boxes overlapping and the like.
I didn't do the setup, but consultant who did wasn't keen.