Open source Tableau alternatives
Every project in the catalog is MIT, Apache or BSD licensed. 1 projects explicitly describe themselves as a Tableau alternative; 31 more are in the category where Tableau is a typical product.
Projects that call themselves a “Tableau alternative”
Source: the project's GitHub description or README.
Kanaries · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Alternative to (project's own claim): Tableau
Common commercial products in this category: Power BI, Looker
- Sürükle ve bırak ile verini görselleştirerek keşifsel analiz yaparsın.
- Bir React bileşeni olarak uygulamana gömüp kullanıcılara görsel analiz sunarsın.
- Web worker'lar sayesinde hesaplamaları tarayıcıda, ayrı sunucu olmadan çalıştırabilirsin.
- • NeutralHacker News
Show HN: Graphic-Walker – A different type of open-source alternative to Tableau
“It's a cool project, thanks for sharing. graphic-walker focuses more on a Grammar of Graphics based graphic system, not a chart-based system. But for performance in the browser, I am also researching ways to handle large datasets in the browser, such as duckdb-wasm. Another…”
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Show HN: Graphic-Walker – A different type of open-source alternative to Tableau
“I checked rath some days ago, it is pretty cool. It's great to know graphic-walker. by the way, for RATH's automated data exploration, it seems like project.”
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Open source projects in the same category: Analytics & Business Intelligence
Category-level information: these projects are the same kind of software as Tableau; they have not claimed to be a one-to-one replacement.
apache · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You can quickly create graphics using the interface without writing code.
- You can run advanced queries with a web-based powerful SQL editor.
- You can take advantage of the light semantic layer to define special dimensions and metrics.
- • High number of open issues (592)
- • NeutralHacker News
Apache Superset 1.1
“> Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform Never heard of it before, but it looks very good and has a healthy community of large corporate users.”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
apache · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You orchestrate tasks with workflows (DAG) that you define as code.
- You visualize data pipelines and workflows through the rich user interface.
- You manage complex DAG operations using command line tools.
- • High number of open issues (1,960)
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Introduction to Apache Airflow
“Thread a few weeks back with Apache Airflow's cousin Apache Nifi [0] . A lot of great discussion in that thread, just like in this one. [0]”
- • NeutralHacker News
Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale
“Apache Airflow is tool for *analytical data* pipelines. If you want to create a daily/monthly data feed from your operational DB, move to it into Data warehouse, run jobs to process/aggregate that data and create daily/weekly/monthly reports, Airflow may help with all those.”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
streamlit · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- Python betiğinden etkileşimli gösterge paneli veya veri uygulaması oluşturabilirsin
- Girdi widget'ları, veri tabloları ve grafiklerle hızlı prototip çıkarabilirsin
- Betiği düzenlerken uygulamanın anında güncellendiğini görebilirsin
- • High number of open issues (1,190)
- • NeutralHacker News
Streamlit: Turn a Python script into an interactive data analysis tool
“Cool! requests_cache caches HTML requests into one SQLite database. [1] pandas-datareader can cache external data requests with requests-cache. [2] dask.cache can do opportunistic caching (of 2GB of data). [3] How does streamlit compare to jupyter voila dashboards (with widgets…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Streamlit: Turn a Python script into an interactive data analysis tool
“This is a declarative programming model similar to React. I'm surprised the analogy isn't drawn in the article. "Streamlit assigns each variable an up-to-date value given widget states." This line is interesting because it implies distributed state in each component (widget).…”
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Polars
75pola-rs · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You can process large data sets that exceed the RAM size with the help of a flow engine.
- You can create multilingual queries using Python, Rust, Node.js and R languages.
- You can speed up your queries with optional NVIDIA GPU support.
- • High number of open issues (2,953)
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Polars
“I may be a rare bird starting with R dataframes (still newbie+ level), then python polars (intermediate- ?). Frankly whenever I have to use pandas or df's in R I am not convinced that these are more intuitive/easier to master. I.e. I do not like the concept of row names. Polars…”
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Polars
“Dask is actually similar to spark in that it will let you compute outside of your computer over multiple machines. Matt Rocklin (the dask creator) has put some effort into benchmarking across all these recently. You can see the presentation here: If you don't feel like watching…”
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academic · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You can follow the basic concepts and work steps that need to be learned in the field of data science.
- You can access technical resources on machine learning algorithms and deep learning libraries.
- You can explore tools, data sets, and community channels that you can use in data science projects.
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Redash
100getredash · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You write SQL and NoSQL queries with the help of a browser-based interface and schema browser.
- You create visualizations with the drag-and-drop method and combine them into a single clipboard.
- You monitor data changes based on the conditions you set and receive scheduled report updates.
- • High number of open issues (786)
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data
“Hello! Redash is great if you are looking to host it in-house and have the engineering resources to set-up and maintain it. If you are looking for an affordable SaaS alternative, you may want to look into Holistics (www.holistics.io). (Note I'm the other co-founder here with…”
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data
“Hey thanks for replying. We noticed a couple of UI irregularities (for example when editing charts the contents or axis labels would disappear). Unfortunately I don't have anything more specific for you right now. I did notice when deleting users it seems that they (and their…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
Cube
95cube-js · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You define metrics and business logic in your data sources in a central code structure.
- You serve the data you identify to different platforms via SQL, REST and GraphQL API.
- Using the built-in cache engine, you get low latency in data queries.
- • High number of open issues (1,178)
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Polaroid Cube
“Hey - you're absolutely right about the video quality. Thanks for pointing it out. The cube looks like a great product, but I was wondering if it will be pro quality. Your post helps. GoPro actually does produce usable pro-quality HD video. Amazing for such a compact and simple…”
excelize
100qax-os · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You can programmatically create and edit Microsoft Excel files.
- You can efficiently process large-sized spreadsheet data with flow API.
- You can create and manage graphics using data from worksheets.
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
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“not a valid zip file”
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
macOS can not use
“cell := xlsx.GetCellValue("Sheet1", "B2") fmt.Println(cell) // Get all the rows in a sheet. rows := xlsx.GetRows("sheet1") fmt.Println(rows) in windows it works normal,but in macOS rows is empty,cell can get value”
dbt
95dbt-labs · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- By typing select statements, you convert their data into tables and views in the data warehouse.
- You manage relationships between models and visualize those relationships.
- You secure the quality of your conversions through tests.
- • High number of open issues (1,831)
- • NeutralHacker News
DataChain: DBT for Unstructured Data
“One of the maintainers of Daft here. Just dug through the datachain codebase to understand a little more. I think while both projects have a Dataframe interface , they're very different projects! Datachain seems to operate more on the orchestration layer, running Python…”
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DataChain: DBT for Unstructured Data
“It took me a minute to grok what this was for, but I think I like it It doesn't really replace any of the tooling we use to wrangle data at scale (like prefect or dagster or temporal) but as a local library it seems to be excellent, I think what confused me most was the…”
partytown
100QwikDev · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You move third-party scripts that consume resources from the main thread to the web worker.
- You run external scripts that are not on the critical path using a lazy loading method.
- You improve page load performance by relaxing the main thread.
- • NeutralHacker News
Partytown: Run Third-Party Scripts from a Web Worker
“Checking the benchmark, Partytown resuts in 237ms, while Baseline is 7ms. Am I missing anything? The browser APIs are already mostly running on separate threads (JS parsing, compilation, TCP requests, etc.).”
- • NeutralHacker News
Partytown: Run Third-Party Scripts from a Web Worker
“See this JS Party episode for a discussion by Partytown co-author (and Angular creator) at the 50:19 mark, . TL;DR, keep the main thread for your application, send 3rd party analytics, etc, to web workers.”
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StarRocks · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- With ANSI SQL and MySQL protocol support, you connect with your existing BI software.
- You directly query data on Apache Iceberg and Hive without having to move data or rewrite SQL.
- You run high-performance queries while making concurrent updates with the primary key-based update model.
- • High number of open issues (1,651)
- • NeutralHacker News
Ask HN: Experience with StarRocks?
“Not a user of StarRocks, but I'm curious about your experience with BigQuery and its price-to-performance (as well as its alternatives). I'm building a product with the gist of "BigQuery but cheaper" (~30%-50% expected cost reduction) by utilizing GPU acceleration (think Nvidia…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Thoughts on OLAPs ClickHouse vs. Apache Druid vs. Starrocks in 2023/2024
“In fact, your choice is determined by your business scenario. I believe that overall, among these databases, StarRocks offers the highest flexibility. Particularly, if your business scenario relies on performing data analysis through joins across multiple tables, then StarRocks…”
perspective-dev · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- Using WebAssembly or server-side infrastructures, you visualize large and streamlined data.
- With the drag-brakr interface, you create reports and boards that can be configured by the user.
- You perform interactive data analysis in the JupyterLab environment.
- • NeutralHacker News
A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
“I was explicit about what the real argument isn't: the notion that lattice cryptography is under-studied compared to RSA/ECC. I understand what your takeaway from this thread is, but my perspective is that the thread is a mix of people who actually work in this field and people…”
- ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue
Perspective Python install failure - Windows
“## Bug Report ### Steps to Reproduce: 1. `pip install numpy` 2. `pip install pyarrow==0.15.1` 3. `pip install perspective-python` ### Expected Result: I would expect the install to flag any additional required dependencies [y/n] and complete successfully. Full output below,…”
uPlot
80leeoniya · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You create interactive graphics for time series and lines
- You define multiple y axes, scales and guidelines
- Update live data stream instantaneously on the graph
- • NeutralHacker News
Show HN: uPlot.js – An exceptionally fast, tiny time series chart
“> I was referring to your benchmark hitting exactly the functional scope of your library while it's invoking more generic libraries that by extension have to do more work for the same functional result ok that's fair but that overhead is immense, and you end up paying it…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Show HN: uPlot.js – An exceptionally fast, tiny time series chart
“> i dont think i ever said label measuring/collision detection is a performance hog. compared to the work of doing the plot itself, it's insignificant. avoiding that work is more of a code size and complexity reduction for uPlot, rather than a perf opt. Okay, fair enough > how…”
modin
49modin-project · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- By adding a single line to your code, you run pandas workflows across all processor cores.
- When you encounter pandas on big data sets, you get a performance boost.
- You scale computing using Ray, Dask or MPI engines.
- • High number of open issues (724)
oceanbase · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You run on distributed architecture with high accessibility and zero data loss.
- You easily move existing MySQL databases to this system.
- You perform real-time analytics and HTAP workloads without additional cost.
- • High number of open issues (610)
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Oceanbase, yet another open source HTAP database
“I strong recommend the Database to every companies. OceanBase is a Distributed Database with more than 11 years history, There are more than 100 companies running with OceanBase. What's more, It is Alibaba behind OceanBase, OceanBase has been run with all kinds of user cases in…”
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Oceanbase, yet another open source HTAP database
“OceanBase was open sourced but they deleted everything says it will no longer be open sourced. Now in 2021 they “open source” it again? TPCC result means nothing without context, Alibaba spent 54 million USD for hardware building the system to run the tests, in comparison 9…”
aws-amplify · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You create authentication streams using Amazon Cognito.
- You perform REST API requests for Amazon API Gateway endpoint.
- With Amazon Pinpoint, you track user sessions and collect analytical data.
- • High number of open issues (518)
- ↑ PositiveGitHub Issue
How to find the bidirectional map between Cognito identity ID and Cognito user information?
“Given the Cognito identity ID, I would like to programmatically find the user name, e-mail address, etc. For example, one issue is that each user gets his/her own folder in S3 (e.g. `private/${cognito-identity.amazonaws.com:sub}/` according to the…”
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
Flutter support
“is there any roadmap for flutter with amplify-js ?”
fathom
54usefathom · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Alternative to (project's own claim): Google Analytics
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You host website traffic data on your own server.
- You follow the visitor statistics of your website at a basic level.
- You install this open source software based on Go and Preact into your own infrastructure.
- • NeutralHacker News
Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics
“I was actually just looking into gauges and Fathom yesterday and tried to set it up. Fathom seemed a bit too early stage to run it myself so I'm going to wait a bit. I was pleasantly surprised that when I looked into gauges that the interface looks modern (unlike the screenshots…”
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics
“> (Hey Zuck, how was Congress?) Well if you use the stock price of $FB as a proxy, Congress was no problem. In fact Facebook stock is at all time record highs. At the height of the media hysteria it traded down to $152, in the last 4 months it has rocketed up 33%. This snark…”
Evidence
100evidence-dev · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- You can create code-based data reports using SQL and Markdown.
- You can host projects you've developed in your own infrastructure or publish them on Evidence Studio.
- You can improve your reports in local development environments or with AI-supported code editors.
- • NeutralHacker News
Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job
“I have a feeling people think that evidence is a binary thing. It's not. Evidence is a floating point value. That is, you can formulate some hypothesis, and the job of evidence is to move probability mass around. I.e. when you have hypotheses A, B and C, each piece of evidence…”
firebase · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- With Cloud Firestore and Realtime Database, you store and synchronize data.
- Using Authentication and Cloud Messaging services, you provide user management and notifications.
- You monitor application crashes with Crashlytics and perform performance tracking with Performance Monitoring.
- ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue
[Resolved] Crash in Analytics after sdk-exp response: -[__NSDictionaryM setObject:forKeyedSubscript:]: key cannot be nil
“### Description Since **2026-09-29 00:41 UTC**, our production iOS app has been crashing at a growing rate (56 crashes / 56 users in the first 18 minutes). We have not shipped an update. The crash started at the same time on 4 already-released builds. ``` Fatal Exception:…”
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Xcode 12 GM Archive Error SPM - unexpected Mach-O header code: 0x72613c21
“### [REQUIRED] Step 1: Describe your environment * Xcode version: Xcode 12 GM (12A7208) * Firebase SDK version: 6.32-spm-beta * Firebase Component: Analytics * Component version: 6.32 * Installation method: Swift Package Manager ### [REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe the problem When…”
covid19india · Analytics & Business Intelligence
Common commercial products in this category: Tableau, Power BI, Looker
- Using Yarn, you set up and run the project in the local environment.
- You provide access to COVID-19 data API.
- You monitor India's COVID-19 case data with charts on the basis of state and county.
- • No published release
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
Test Claiming Issue
“Test Claiming Issue”
- ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue
Add containment zones as they get declared
“**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** New containment clusters are being declared by the govt with different severity levels. It would be helpful to add them to this project **Describe the solution you'd like** A new page with the map color coded to…”
Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source