What’s Superset?

Superset is a modern data exploration and data visualization platform. Superset can replace or augment proprietary business intelligence tools for many teams. Superset integrates well with a variety of data sources.

Superset provides:

  • no-code interface for building charts quickly
  • A powerful, web-based SQL Editor for advanced querying
  • lightweight semantic layer for quickly defining custom dimensions and metrics
  • Out of the box support for nearly any SQL database or data engine
  • A wide array of beautiful visualizations to showcase your data, ranging from simple bar charts to geospatial visualizations
  • Lightweight, configurable caching layer to help ease database load
  • Highly extensible security roles and authentication options
  • An API for programmatic customization
  • cloud-native architecture designed from the ground up for scale

Architecture

Supported Databases

Superset can query data from any SQL-speaking datastore or data engine (Presto, Trino, Athena, and more) that has a Python DB-API driver and a SQLAlchemy dialect.

Here are some of the major database solutions that are supported:

Reference

  • Superset “In the Wild” - open a PR to add your org to the list!
  • Feature Flags - the status of Superset’s Feature Flags.
  • Standard Roles - How RBAC permissions map to roles.
  • Superset Wiki - Tons of additional community resources: best practices, community content and other information.
  • Superset SIPs - The status of Superset’s SIPs (Superset Improvement Proposals) for both consensus and implementation status.

Repo Activity

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