Show HN: Cube – open-source headless BI

15 points by igorlukanin 3 years ago | 5 comments

Hi HN, I'm Igor, a proud part of the team here at cube.dev. I'm excited to share some news about Cube, an open-source headless BI platform that now has almost universal connectivity to both upstream and downstream tools in the data pipeline: https://cube.dev/blog/expanded-bi-support

If you're confused by "headless BI", there's a blog post to get you covered (https://cube.dev/blog/headless-bi), but the most concise and developer-friendly way to put it would be that Cube can connect to any data source that speaks SQL (from Postgres to BigQuery to ClickHouse to Materialize) and expose your data, conveniently presented as high-level metrics rather than in terms of tables and columns, via a set of APIs, including REST, GraphQL, and SQL API.

The last one is particularly interesting, because it gives you an opportunity to deliver metrics through Cube to notebooks like Jupiter or BI tools like Tableau or Superset (all covered by SQL API), just like you can deliver them to front-end applications (covered by REST/GraphQL).

Do you see Cube fit for the applications you're building?

Let's discuss here or in Cube's Slack community (https://slack.cube.dev) where we recently celebrated that Cube has got over 13,000 stars on GitHub (which is not that bad for a developer tool, I guess).

aidenn0 3 years ago |

> If you're confused by "headless BI", there's a blog post to get you covered (https://cube.dev/blog/headless-bi), but the most concise and developer-friendly way to put it would be that Cube can connect to any data source that speaks SQL (from Postgres to BigQuery to ClickHouse to Materialize) and expose your data, conveniently presented as high-level metrics rather than in terms of tables and columns, via a set of APIs, including REST, GraphQL, and SQL API.

I had to scroll halfway down that article to find that "BI" stands for "Business Intelligence"

jharohit 3 years ago |

Looks super polished. Will have to give it a spin. what we use right now is Airbyte https://airbyte.com/ - super exhaustive in connectors but configuring some connectors like SFDC was very painful

swyx 3 years ago | |

Airbyte employee here! can I learn more about what was painful about the SFDC connector?

jharohit 3 years ago | | |

Hey, so the guide to get the integration with SFDC does not work. Let me know your email and I am happy to drop some notes and screenshots. Seems like it has to do with access token mechanisms in the new sfdc lightning which breaks some of the last steps in the guide.