iDBQuery vs Geckoboard: what's the difference?

Geckoboard does one thing very well: clear, real-time status dashboards for a whole team to see. It is quick to configure, connects to common tools and spreadsheets, and its big, legible KPI displays are ideal for office wall screens and shared TVs. If your goal is a live, always-on view of a handful of key metrics, Geckoboard is purpose-built and hard to beat on simplicity.

It is intentionally not an analysis tool, there is no asking new questions of the underlying data.

iDBQuery fills that gap:

• Ask anything. Type any plain-language question and get a number, chart, table or dashboard, not just a fixed metric tile.
• One live model across sources. It joins databases, warehouses, spreadsheets, APIs and documents so questions can span systems.
• Cited answers. Each figure links back to the exact source rows for verification.
• Analyst agent. It can investigate an open question on its own and explain the result with sources.
• Deploy anywhere. Cloud, VPC, air-gapped, or Desktop.

The natural pairing: Geckoboard on the wall to broadcast the headline KPIs, and iDBQuery on your screen to investigate the moment a number looks off, tracing it to the exact rows behind it.