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A data visualization and analytics component, especially well-suited for large and/or streaming datasets.

38 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 5 stories, 33 comments · first 2017-12-15 · latest 2025-10-19

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  1. Perspective is also getting direct support for DuckDB soon! https://github.com/finos/perspective/pull/3062
    comment by texodus · 2025-10-19 · in Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB
  2. …chunk of work. Well done! [0] https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/clients/wasm/data_ingestion#a... [1] https://github.com/finos/perspective
    comment by alex_hirner · 2025-10-19 · in Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB
  3. Yes! This is the pro version, we also develop open source https://github.com/finos/perspective (which Prospective is substantially built on, with some customizations such as a wasm64 runtime).
    comment by texodus · 2025-04-30 · in You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News
  4. …AG Grid at many of my companies and found it worth the price. I've also dabbled in Perspective ( https://github.com/finos/perspective ), but it may be overkill for you. It was a fun project similar to SQL Workbench where data can be…
    comment by amir_karbasi · 2025-01-21 · in Ask HN: Is AG Grid worth it?
  5. Looks great! I remember seeing your post from a few months ago and I tried out https://github.com/finos/perspective but it wasn't for me. Will be giving this a try later this week!
    comment by promichael · 2024-11-13 · in Show HN: Python Stream Processing with Denormalized
  6. …between Javascript, Typescript, React, and Angular. [1] https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo [2] https://github.com/finos/perspective [3] live example https://buckaroo-data.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/#/DF... [4]…
    comment by paddy_m · 2024-11-02 · in Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN
  7. …sampling/smoothing? Also would be great to have some comparison to similar tools in this space e.g. https://github.com/finos/perspective and HvPlot+Datashader.
    comment by jmakov · 2024-10-08 · in Show HN: Squey, an open-source GPU-accelerated data visualization software
  8. This looks super interesting. I built https://github.com/finos/perspective in a past life but have been out of the streaming analytics game for some time. Nice to see single machine efficiency be a focus, will give this a try and post…
    comment by dman · 2024-08-15 · in Show HN: Denormalized – Embeddable Stream Processing in Rust and DataFusion
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    Perspective Virtual API: batched data from the server to the client
    story by klaussilveira · 2024-08-11 · 0 comments
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    Perspective: High-performance data visualization and analytics in WebAssembly
    story by klaussilveira · 2024-07-12 · 5 comments
  11. …and dice gigabytes of static or realtime data. It's built on the popular OSS framework Perspective https://github.com/finos/perspective . Prospective runs as WebAssembly in modern browsers, so it's fast, portable, and memory-efficient. It…
    comment by texodus · 2024-06-03 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
  12. …with the help of DuckDB WASM ( https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb-wasm ) and perspective.js ( https://github.com/finos/perspective ).
    comment by tobilg · 2024-05-27 · in Big data is dead (2023)
  13. …fast updates than styling, although it looks good. Glide is a newcomer that also renders to canvas. https://github.com/finos/perspective https://github.com/glideapps/glide-data-grid
    comment by paddy_m · 2024-04-04 · in The design philosophy of Great Tables
  14. Most likely https://github.com/finos/perspective
    comment by 22c · 2024-02-26 · in Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python
  15. …but I haven't dug into the internals. [1] https://github.com/glideapps/glide-data-grid [2] https://github.com/finos/perspective
    comment by paddy_m · 2024-01-29 · in New Renderers for GTK
  16. Yes. We are working on adding support for aggregation and pivoting using https://github.com/finos/perspective
    comment by rowsncolumns · 2023-11-24 · in Show HN: React Spreadsheet 2
  17. https://github.com/finos/perspective
    comment by texodus · 2023-11-02 · in Perspective Market Simulation
  18. Something like https://github.com/finos/perspective ? We use an OLAP(-y) WASM engine to provide query-ability to our data visualization tool, and doing the calculations in the browser is cheaper and simpler than a server-side database for…
    comment by texodus · 2023-10-23 · in ChDB: Embedded OLAP SQL Engine Powered by ClickHouse
  19. The CSV parser for [Perspective]( https://github.com/finos/perspective ) uses the [Apache Arrow]( https://github.com/apache/arrow ) C++ CSV parser compiled to WASM. It's not currently multi-threaded but this is possible as well to my…
    comment by texodus · 2023-09-07 · in Show HN: uDSV.js – A faster CSV parser
  20. …create an issue on their GitHub repo, or better yet, create a PR and reference this existing issue: https://github.com/finos/perspective/issues/2133
    comment by troymc · 2023-04-05 · in Perspective: Open Source WebAssembly-Powered BI
  21. …https://prospectiveco.github.io/nyc_slice/ https://github.com/ProspectiveCo/nyc_slice (source) https://github.com/finos/perspective (component)
    comment by texodus · 2023-01-12 · in NYC Slice
  22. Ever try Perspective? https://github.com/finos/perspective
    comment by texodus · 2022-12-13 · in Unovis: Data visualization for React, Angular, Svelte, TypeScript, JavaScript
  23. I wrote a medium-sized Rust web component with Yew, https://github.com/finos/perspective . I chose Rust/Yew for circumstances unique to my use case (a core data engine already in WASM/C++), and with some prior experience in both web and…
    comment by texodus · 2022-06-16 · in Building a web application with Rust and WebAssembly
  24. How about https://github.com/finos/perspective
    comment by texodus · 2022-06-05 · in Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere (2020)
  25. …I looked at the list of supported languages[1] and Rust seems to be a good choice. [0] - https://github.com/finos/perspective [1] - https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs
    comment by sAbakumoff · 2022-01-30 · in Uninitialized memory: Unsafe Rust is too hard
  26. …in-Javascript (via wasm), or replicated between the two. Standalone Python virtual server example https://github.com/finos/perspective/tree/master/examples/to... JupyterLab demo on Binder https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/finos/perspective/master?…
    comment by texodus · 2021-11-10 · in Rows.com – Spreadsheet that supports external API integration and collaboration
  27. …out: https://www.finos.org Lots of great projects, one I used recently and a favourite was this: https://github.com/finos/perspective
    comment by monkeydust · 2021-10-15 · in Open source is coming to financial services
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    Perspective 1.0
    story by texodus · 2021-10-13 · 0 comments
  29. Yes definitely. For example, the perspective pivoting engine ( https://github.com/finos/perspective ) supports arrow natively, so you can stream arrow buffers from a big data system directly to be manipulated in your browser (treating the…
    comment by infinite8s · 2021-02-05 · in Apache Arrow 3.0
  30. Have you seen https://github.com/finos/perspective ? Though they removed the JS library a few months ago in favour of a WASM build of the C++ library.
    comment by nevi-me · 2021-02-03 · in Apache Arrow 3.0
  31. In Perspective ( https://github.com/finos/perspective ), we use Apache Arrow as a fast, cross-language/cross-network data encoding that is extremely useful for in-browser data visualization and analytics. Some benefits: - super fast…
    comment by juntan · 2021-02-03 · in Apache Arrow 3.0
  32. Perspective is developed at JPMorgan https://github.com/finos/perspective/
    comment by texodus · 2020-12-31 · in WebAssembly Studio
  33. Apologies, this was fixed a few days ago but hasn't made it into a release yet. https://github.com/finos/perspective/pull/1065
    comment by texodus · 2020-06-01 · in Perspective: Streaming Analytics via WebAssembly
  34. Look into https://github.com/finos/perspective/ WebAssembly might help you as well.
    comment by therein · 2019-07-02 · in Svelte is the most beautiful web framework I've seen
  35. …extreme performance, and can run trivially on the server via node.js - there is even a CLI version: https://github.com/jpmorganchase/perspective https://github.com/jpmorganchase/perspective/tree/master/exa...
    comment by texodus · 2018-10-12 · in Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript
  36. Perspective is a good example: https://github.com/jpmorganchase/perspective Move heavy number crunching into WASM.
    comment by hackcasual · 2018-02-16 · in WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts
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    Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly
    story by texodus · 2018-02-06 · 130 comments
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    Show HN: Perspective – high performance pivoting engine in WebAssembly
    story by timkpaine · 2017-12-15 · 0 comments