Founded in 2015 in San Francisco, Metabase is open source (AGPL) and free to self-host, letting non-technical colleagues query data through a visual builder with dashboards, subscriptions, and alerts, a common starting point for small teams.
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Founded in 2003 in Seattle and acquired by Salesforce in 2019 for about $15.7B, Tableau leads with drag-and-drop interaction and enterprise governance under creator and viewer seat licensing for cross-department analytics.
Incubated at Airbnb around 2015 and a top-level Apache project since 2017, Superset is a SQL-first open-source BI platform with 50+ chart types and row-level security for data teams building metric systems.
Open-sourced by Baidu in 2013 and a top-level Apache project since 2018, Apache ECharts is an Apache 2.0 charting library with dozens of chart types and dual Canvas/SVG rendering, strong in Chinese docs for dashboards and embedded charts.
Redash is an open-source (BSD-2) SQL query and dashboard tool kept alive by the community after Databricks acquired it in 2020, supporting 30+ sources and query alerts for SQL-comfortable small teams.