# Superset
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A modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application.
[**Why Superset?**](#why-superset) |
[**Supported Databases**](#supported-databases) |
[**Installation and Configuration**](#installation-and-configuration) |
[**Release Notes**](RELEASING/README.md#release-notes-for-recent-releases) |
[**Get Involved**](#get-involved) |
[**Contributor Guide**](#contributor-guide) |
[**Resources**](#resources) |
[**Organizations Using Superset**](RESOURCES/INTHEWILD.md)
## Screenshots & Gifs
**Gallery**
**View Dashboards**
**Slice & dice your data**
**Query and visualize your data with SQL Lab**
**Visualize geospatial data with deck.gl**
**Choose from a wide array of visualizations**
## Why Superset?
Superset provides:
- An intuitive interface for visualizing datasets and
crafting interactive dashboards
- A wide array of beautiful visualizations to showcase your data
- Code-free visualization builder to extract and present datasets
- A world-class SQL IDE for preparing data for visualization, including a rich metadata browser
- A lightweight semantic layer which empowers data analysts to quickly define custom dimensions and metrics
- Out-of-the-box support for most SQL-speaking databases
- Seamless, in-memory asynchronous caching and queries
- An extensible security model that allows configuration of very intricate rules
on who can access which product features and datasets.
- Integration with major
authentication backends (database, OpenID, LDAP, OAuth, REMOTE_USER, etc)
- The ability to add custom visualization plugins
- An API for programmatic customization
- A cloud-native architecture designed from the ground up for scale
## Supported Databases
Superset can query data from any SQL-speaking datastore or data engine (e.g. Presto or Athena) that has a Python DB-API driver and a SQLAlchemy dialect.
Here are some of the major database solutions that are supported: