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Kyligence Insight for Superset Introduction

With the ever-growing data volume and complexity, the legacy method of data processing and analytics can longer satisfy the demand of uncovering actionable insight from big data. To build an infrastructure that supports swift and effective big data analytics, enterprises turn to Kyligence technology as their de facto big data analytics solution. For those companies, they are facing the challenge of adopting a Business Intelligence (BI) solution that is lightweight and easy-to-integrate with Kylin.

Kyligence Insight for Superset, a business intelligence web application that customized based on Apache Superset (incubating), the most popular open source business intelligence web application, is a perfect solution designed for Kyligence customers who are looking for BI that can deeply integrate with Kyligence technology. In addition, Kyligence Insight for Superset adds no extra cost for Kyligence customer, which helps customers to build a cost-effective big data solution with Kyligence technology as a core.

About Kyligence/ Apache Kylin

Kyligence Inc. is a leading data intelligence company which focuses on big data analytic technology innovation. It is founded by the team who created Apache Kylin, a leading open source OLAP for Big Data project. Kyligence is offering on-premises big data analytic platform- Kyligence Enterprise and its cloud product - Kyligence Cloud.

About Superset

Apache Superset is a data exploration and visualization platform designed to be visual, intuitive, and interactive. As the most popular open source BI in the industry, Superset provides below advantages to its users:

1. Intuitive and interactive, easy to learn and easy to deploy.

2. Eye-catching dashboards and D3-based extendable visualizations.

3. Fully-fledged reporting features: filtering, sorting, page-by and etc.

4. Enterprise-ready features: sharing, exporting, portal integration and reports permission.

5. Customizable reporting dimension and measures.

6. Easy-to-deploy and easy-to-maintain web-based application.

About Kyligence Insight for Superset

To better serve Kyligence or Kylin users, Kyligence Insight for Superset is the customized Superset that enriches Kylin ecosystem, providing alternative analytics option for end-users.

Kyligence Insight for Superset is tailored to be seamlessly integrated with Kyligence or Kylin, that provides smooth analytical experience from Kyligence or Kylin to Superset, reduces duplicated manual efforts, and speed up time-to-insight.Beyond Superset, Kyligence Insight for Superset provides following features that differentiate between itself and Superset.

Sync Kyligence or Kylin Cube with one click. With one click in Kyligence Insight for Superset, users can sync Kyligence or Kylin Cube immediately and start analyzing Cube instantly.

Support querying on multiple table data model on Kyligence or Kylin Cube. The User can analyze Cube with either star schema data model or snowflake schema data model.

Support deploy Superset with Docker. Users may easily deploy, maintain and upgrade Kyligence Insight for Superset with Docker.

Support offline deployment without installing any environment dependencies.

Fine-tuned query syntax for Kyligence or Kylin query engine. Query pattern is fine-tuned to work best on Kyligence or Kylin data engine.