Metabase Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages
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125 Metabase Reviews

Powerful visualization with ease of writing native queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Requires knowledge of SQL to get the best out of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a great UX and is very straightforward to use, and advanced users can easily drop into SQL if needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
That not many people know about it, so whenever I bring it to a new company there is some resistance from folks that prefer other brands that invest more in marketing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of writing queries, and dashboard creation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Limitations in visualization tools and its usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The visualizations are pretty great and the platform is quite easy to customize according to needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The platform only uses basic programming languages and becomes quite slow when a large user base uses it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to follow market trends using Metabase. The analysis is seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It could be more visually attractive with the charts of trends. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
-Ease of querying information
-Custom filters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
-The error detection in queries can be slightly better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Our team loves how easy it is for developers to build reports and share them with internal teams and automate daily/weekly reporting. Integrations with email and slack make Metabase even more powerful. 💪 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Pricing may be considered high for an early-stage company but their OSS/self-hosted version more than makes up for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open Source, user-friendliness, easy integration with controllable filters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
A bit on the heavy side in terms of RAM usage, queries sometimes fail without clear reason. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Metabas was easy to set up and configure and even easier to utilize and build Questions and Queries as it pertained to immediate data needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Not many negative things to say about the platform - it solved an immediate need for data analytics for our business users without any technical resources allocated to achieving the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is free. Functionality is very powerful, supports almost all data sources you would like to connect to it. Bugs are getting fixed quickly, a lot of updates with new functionality. Really love their answers section. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Canvas for dashboards is limited. Can't blend data coming from different data sources. In case if data is stored in a different database you first need to pre-process it in some sort of DWH before getting connected to Metabase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.