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Redash — open source alternative

SQL-first analytics platform with dashboards and alerts.

Strengths

SQL editor plus query scheduling and caching.
Connects to dozens of sources, including NoSQL and APIs.
Alerts on query results, not just dashboards.

Weaknesses

Development slowed after Databricks acquisition in 2020.
Self-host stack is heavier than Metabase.
UI shows its age next to newer BI entrants.

License: BSD-2-Clause Self-host difficulty: 3/5 Self-host only

Official site · Source on GitHub

Redash is used as an alternative to

Tableau

Salesforce-owned enterprise BI and visualization platform.

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Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft's BI suite bundled with Fabric and M365.

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Metabase

Friendly BI tool aimed at non-SQL users asking questions of data.

License: AGPL-3.0 (Community) / commercial (Enterprise, Pro)

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