Ananas
Data
data preparation and ETL
SHOW HN2019
359points
104comments
#74of 2,195 in 2019
Top 4%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
7 positive, 30 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 9 critical, out of 48 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Design: 1 for, 4 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks great and useful for Excel-heavy users
From 3 comments
Looks great to me. Nice job shipping!
thoughtpalette on HNThis looks very good and a fit for my end users who deal with excel files all the time. Is there any plans to add Excel as a datasource? Cannot convert to CSV without major pain…
najarvg on HNThis looks really cool! Thanks for sharing, I can't wait to test this
yazan94 on HN
Declarative YAML approach appealing
From 1 comment
The YAML approach seems far more appealing to me honestly, though I'm sure XML was a sane choice at the time.
ZeroCool2u on HN
Objections
Name is hard to pronounce and spell
From 2 comments
My unprofessional professional opinion. The product looks great, but the name has to go. I can't imagine pronouncing that, let alone communicating it over a phone. Any simple…
overcast on HNI think the name and logo are nice (pineapple database right?) but agree that it's both difficult to spell and pronounce (particularly for people who refer to them as…
koolba on HN
No scheduling yet
From 2 comments
Will you have a server too? Another issue is scheduling, triggers, etc.. You are in this strange space between Excel and “enterprise” ETL like Talend. We are so frustrated with…
kfk on HNActually, we provide a command-line interface, you can do pretty much everything the UI does with command-line. And you can also run it in server mode with command-line. In the…
millboh on HN
Desktop app not code-signed
From 1 comment
I would recommend code-signing the build before distributing.
nishkalkashyap on HN
Unclear scalability on large files
From 2 comments
At what scale has this been tested? As in, are you aware of any data file size limits? I have a csv with ~6M rows and when paging through the docs the "Exploring your data…
chrsstrm on HNDoes this have any sort of hinting for indexed queries at all? I would worry that a beginner would create a horrid mess of queries that could consume all available resources.
jugg1es on HN
Requests
Python and JavaScript user-defined nodes
From 2 comments
This looks good. One of your competitors charges about $4,000 per seat per year so this seems to be a good space. If you add the possibility of building user defined nodes with…
kfk on HNWe will release a user-defined function with Javascript in next release. Python is on the roadmap too.
bhou on HN
Redshift and more data sources
From 2 comments
No Redshift support? Hmmm.
tracer4201 on HNIt is on our roadmap! We will continue adding more data sources in the following release.
bhou on HN
Excel as data source
From 1 comment
This looks very good and a fit for my end users who deal with excel files all the time. Is there any plans to add Excel as a datasource? Cannot convert to CSV without major pain…
najarvg on HN
API GET data source
From 1 comment
Can we hook this to an api GET request ? I guess i could API -> download JSON -> Ananas, but you know..:)
lucasverra on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Metabase and Redash
From 2 comments
Pretty similar to https://github.com/getredash/redash from a first look. What would you say are the main differences?
dewey on HNThis looks a bit like https://metabase.com -- anyone used both and can make a comparison?
mtarnovan on HN
Why the pineapple name
From 1 comment
Ok, but why did you name it after pineapples?
eli_gottlieb on HN
What is the business model
From 1 comment
What is your business model?
pplonski86 on HN
Alternatives named
Metabase
From 1 comment
This looks a bit like https://metabase.com -- anyone used both and can make a comparison?
mtarnovan on HN
Redash
From 1 comment
Pretty similar to https://github.com/getredash/redash from a first look. What would you say are the main differences?
dewey on HN
Talend and Informatica
From 1 comment
Probably Informatica or Talend which are two of the most popular Enterprise ETL tools.
alienreborn on HN
Alteryx
From 1 comment
Alteryx would be my guess.
ZeroCool2u on HN
Meltano and dbt
From 1 comment
This is great. Things to keep on your radar: Meltano spun out of Gitlab is working in this domain, I think they are making progress. https://meltano.com/ dbt are building the…
sails on HN