Fast. We use connect directly to your SQL database (mongo coming soon) so that's the perf bottleneck. Currently no query timeout -- if you host it yourself, the server is also async, so timeouts won't be an issue. Caching behind the scenes is something we'll build over the next month.
I think that Chartio and Mode are very good answering questions, and exploring data. If your problem is "what is our CAGR since 2015", Chartio is good for that. Mode, I think, is more similar to us, and certainly better for data analysis. I think, however, that we are more customizable than Mode -- imagine writing a search box in Mode, for example, in order to drill in deep on a certain customer's orders.
I think we're more about building apps that would be rote coding otherwise (e.g. building a CRUD app to manage orders), or empowering non-engineers to build and maintain these apps themselves. Instead of hiring more engineers, what if you made everybody in your company able to quickly build simple software? I think Excel has been very empowering, and we want to do the same.
I think that Chartio and Mode are very good answering questions, and exploring data. If your problem is "what is our CAGR since 2015", Chartio is good for that. Mode, I think, is more similar to us, and certainly better for data analysis. I think, however, that we are more customizable than Mode -- imagine writing a search box in Mode, for example, in order to drill in deep on a certain customer's orders.
I think we're more about building apps that would be rote coding otherwise (e.g. building a CRUD app to manage orders), or empowering non-engineers to build and maintain these apps themselves. Instead of hiring more engineers, what if you made everybody in your company able to quickly build simple software? I think Excel has been very empowering, and we want to do the same.