What is Caravel?
Caravel is an open source business intelligence web application developed in Python and React. It is designed to provide rich, interactive data visualizations and dashboards that allow for easy data exploration and insights.
Some key features and capabilities of Caravel include:
- Interactive data visualizations including charts, maps, pivot tables, and more
- Ad-hoc SQL querying and exploration of databases
- Custom dashboarding with filterable widgets and parameters
- Granular access controls and data security
- Modern UI with drag-and-drop interface for dashboard construction
- High performance querying via caching and optimization
- Connector architecture supports SQL-speaking databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Redshift, and Hive
- Extensible and customizable via Python-based plugins
Caravel is well-suited for business intelligence use cases where understanding and interacting with large, complex data sources is required. Its flexibility makes Caravel a popular open source alternative to proprietary tools like Tableau, Looker, or Power BI.