Back when this product was announced and discussed on HN[0], one of the primary complaints was the 5-report limit that it imposed on free users. Having that lifted seems like it may make a lot of people happy.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897415" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897415</a>
This is a good start, but for those not entirely embedded in the ecosystem, it's unreasonable to expect exposing a Postgres DB without SSL. I'll stick with Tableau for now.
It's really great to see useful software like this becoming freely available but I do sometimes worry about the effect big players like Google have on niche markets like this. Any company building products in this space are about to feel the squeeze as their potential customers instead pick the free option.<p>Small products inside of a big company don't have to be independently viable. It seems like the natural conclusion to this setup, whether intentional or not, is that the big companies create monopolies in these niches by pricing out the competition. That's great for the consumer while everything's free and there are still alternatives. I'm not sure how this will play out in the long run though.
Cool! it's working here in Brazil.<p>As others commented, the lack of secure connection/need to expose corporate DBs will have many IT managers dismiss Data Studio. Hope Google adds secure connectors.<p>I'm working with a client using Data Studio as viz and Google Sheets as source, and the marketing people love looking at both.
What a blow to Amazon Quicksight!<p>I was just saying a couple of months ago what a game-changer the Quicksight pricing would be[0]. Next time data visualization comes up for me, my first move will be to compare these two options and see if Quicksight offers any additional benefits over Google Data Studio.<p>But I can happily say, I'll not have to have another conversation with my boss about adopting an expensive data visualization tool.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12966351" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12966351</a>
Google used to really innovate. Google Fusion Tables was terrific early on, for example. Gmail, where to even start in showing it with praise.<p>Google Data Studio overlaps Fusion Tables, Sheets, Chart Tools and dozens of products like Amazon Quicksight, BIME, Tabeau, Rodeo, etc.<p>I'd have liked to see Google apply its UI to an <i>accessible</i> machine learning studio, democratize the tech, and really break some ground.
For those who want on-premise google analytics datawarehouse should use this <a href="http://www.infocaptor.com/google-analytics-datawarehouse.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.infocaptor.com/google-analytics-datawarehouse.php</a>
Oh good, I was really looking for a way to insecurely ship all of my customers data to Google. This makes it super easy to lose all compliance controls I've worked years to build.
A.K.A - They should have a hosted onsite version and, at the very least, not offer connectors without secure connections (like the postgres one). This tool is good for analyzing data already at Google (adwords, etc), but it is very poorly positioned to be useful for anything else.
Awesome! Datastore connector, please!! Cloud Datastore is the ideal NoOps and Serverless storage solution for projects from small to large. It would be great if you can build a connector for it.