Thanks Nimisha and Braden for your comments on the analytics story at edX. We discovered Metabase and have been finding it super powerful and easy to deliver custom reports to our customers.
Our non-technical people can easily built reports without needing to know SQL, which I think is one of the biggest strengths of Metabase, but I’ve also heard very good things about dbt for doing more sophisticated analytics.
One of the downsides of Metabase is that you can’t do cross-database joins, so taking the data in MySQL and synthesizing it with data captures from the events tracking stream is not possible, unless you push all of that data into a single data warehouse.
For this purpose, we’re looking at tools like Dremio and Snowflake.