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Superset's documentation
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Superset is a data exploration platform designed to be visual, intuitive
and interactive.
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.. warning:: This project was originally named Panoramix, was renamed to
Caravel in March 2016, and is currently named Superset as of November 2016
Overview
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Features
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- A rich set of data visualizations, integrated from some of the best
visualization libraries
- Create and share simple dashboards
- An extensible, high-granularity security/permission model allowing
intricate rules on who can access individual features and the dataset
- Enterprise-ready authentication with integration with major authentication
providers (database, OpenID, LDAP, OAuth & REMOTE_USER through
Flask AppBuilder)
- A simple semantic layer, allowing users to control how data sources are
displayed in the UI by defining which fields should show up in which
drop-down and which aggregation and function metrics are made available
to the user
- Integration with most RDBMS through SqlAlchemy
- Deep integration with Druid.io
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Contents
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
installation
tutorial
security
sqllab
videos
gallery
druid
faq
Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`