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Metabase vs Redash: What are the differences?
Developers describe Metabase as "An open-source business intelligence tool". Metabase 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. On the other hand, Redash is detailed as "Easily query an existing database, share the dataset and visualize it in different ways". 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.
Metabase and Redash can be primarily classified as "Business Intelligence" tools.
Metabase and Redash are both open source tools. It seems that Metabase with 15.6K GitHub stars and 2.09K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Redash with 13.1K GitHub stars and 2.17K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Metabase has a broader approval, being mentioned in 84 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Redash, which is listed in 38 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.
Pros of Metabase
- Database visualisation60
- Open Source44
- Easy setup41
- Dashboard out of the box36
- Free22
- Simple14
- Support for many dbs9
- Easy embedding7
- It's good6
- Easy6
- AGPL : wont help with adoption but depends on your goal5
- BI doesn't get easier than that5
- Multiple integrations4
- Google analytics integration4
- Easy set up4
Pros of Redash
- Open Source9
- SQL Friendly3
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Cons of Metabase
- Harder to setup than similar tools6
Cons of Redash
- All results are loaded into RAM before displaying1
- Memory Leaks1