January 22, 2021
On January 21, 2021, Apache’s official announced that Apache® Superset™ has become a top-level project. Apache® Superset™ is a modern big data exploration and visualization platform that allows users to build dashboards quickly and easily using a simple code-free visualization builder and the most advanced SQL editor. The project was launched on Airbnb in 2015 and entered the Apache incubator in May 2017. Apache Superset is a big data-related BI visualization tool.
Apache Superset mainly has the following functions:
- Rich data visualization tools out of the box;
- An easy-to-use interface for exploring and visualizing data;
- Create and share dashboards;
- Enterprise-level identity verification integrated with major identity verification providers;
- A scalable, high-granularity security/authority model that allows anyone to access individual features and data sets to make complex controls;
- A simple semantic layer allows users to define which fields should be displayed in which drop-down list, and provide users with functions such as aggregation and functional measurement;
- Integrate with most RDBMS through SQLAlchemy;
- Deep integration with Druid.io.
Superset is cloud-native and highly available. It is designed to be scalable to large-scale distributed environments and supports working in containers. Apache Superset supports the following multiple databases:
Apache Superset is currently available on Airbnb, Netflix, Twitter, Yahoo! and domestic Qunar, bilibili, Kuaishou, Douban, VIPKID. The complete list can be found in Superset Users in the Wild. For more information about Apache Superset, refer its official page at https://superset.apache.org/.