Looker vs Metabase vs Tableau

Overview

Looker

Stacks636

Followers656

Votes9

Tableau

Stacks1.3K

Followers1.4K

Votes8

Metabase

Stacks928

Followers1.2K

Votes271

GitHub Stars44.4K

Forks6.0K

Detailed Comparison

Looker	Tableau	Metabase
We've built a unique data modeling language, connections to today's fastest analytical databases, and a service that you can deploy on any infrastructure, and explore on any device. Plus, we'll help you every step of the way.	Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. Connect to almost any database, drag and drop to create visualizations, and share with a click.	It is an easy way to generate charts and dashboards, ask simple ad hoc queries without using SQL, and see detailed information about rows in your Database. You can set it up in under 5 minutes, and then give yourself and others a place to ask simple questions and understand the data your application is generating.
Zero-lag access to data;No limits;Personalized setup and support;No uploading, warehousing, or indexing;Deploy anywhere;Works in any browser, anywhere;Personalized access points	Connect to data on prem or in the cloud—whether it’s big data, a SQL database, a spreadsheet, or cloud apps like Google Analytics and Salesforce. Access and combine disparate data without writing code. Power users can pivot, split, and manage metadata to optimize data sources. Analysis begins with data. Get more from yours with Tableau.; Exceptional analytics demand more than a pretty dashboard. Quickly build powerful calculations from existing data, drag and drop reference lines and forecasts, and review statistical summaries. Make your point with trend analyses, regressions, and correlations for tried and true statistical understanding. Ask new questions, spot trends, identify opportunities, and make data-driven decisions with confidence.; Answer the “where” as well as the “why.” Create interactive maps automatically. Built-in postal codes mean lightning-fast mapping for more than 50 countries worldwide. Use custom geocodes and territories for personalized regions, like sales areas. We designed Tableau maps specifically to help your data stand out.; Ditch the static slides for live stories that others can explore. Create a compelling narrative that empowers everyone you work with to ask their own questions, analyzing interactive visualizations with fresh data. Be part of a culture of data collaboration, extending the impact of your insights.	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 44.4K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 6.0K
Stacks 636	Stacks 1.3K	Stacks 928
Followers 656	Followers 1.4K	Followers 1.2K
Votes 9	Votes 8	Votes 271
Pros & Cons
Pros 4 Real time in app customer chat support 4 GitHub integration 1 Reduces the barrier of entry to utilizing data Cons 3 Price	Pros 6 Capable of visualising billions of rows 1 Responsive 1 Intuitive and easy to learn Cons 3 Very expensive for small companies	Pros 62 Database visualisation 45 Open Source 41 Easy setup 36 Dashboard out of the box 23 Free Cons 7 Harder to setup than similar tools
Integrations
No integrations available	No integrations available	PostgreSQL MongoDB Amazon Redshift MySQL Microsoft SQL Server

What are some alternatives to Looker, Tableau, Metabase?

Superset

Superset's main goal is to make it easy to slice, dice and visualize data. It empowers users to perform analytics at the speed of thought.

Cube

Cube: the universal semantic layer that makes it easy to connect BI silos, embed analytics, and power your data apps and AI with context.

Power BI

It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.

Mode

Created by analysts, for analysts, Mode is a SQL-based analytics tool that connects directly to your database. Mode is designed to alleviate the bottlenecks in today's analytical workflow and drive collaboration around data projects.

Google Datastudio

It lets you create reports and data visualizations. Data Sources are reusable components that connect a report to your data, such as Google Analytics, Google Sheets, Google AdWords and so forth. You can unlock the power of your data with interactive dashboards and engaging reports that inspire smarter business decisions.

AskNed

AskNed is an analytics platform where enterprise users can get answers from their data by simply typing questions in plain English.

Shiny

It is an open source R package that provides an elegant and powerful web framework for building web applications using R. It helps you turn your analyses into interactive web applications without requiring HTML, CSS, or JavaScript knowledge.

Redash

Redash helps you make sense of your data. Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company.

Azure Synapse

It is an analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. It brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.