Lightdash
94 · HealthyBI tool that turns a dbt project into a semantic layer for self-serve dashboards.
4 open source projects replace Hex, ranked by how safe each is to depend on.
BI tool that turns a dbt project into a semantic layer for self-serve dashboards.
Data notebook for Python, SQL and R with interactive blocks, database connections and an AI assistant, runnable locally.
Business intelligence tool for asking questions of your database and sharing dashboards.
Write SQL against dozens of data sources, then turn the results into charts, dashboards and scheduled alerts.




Health and license are separate verdicts: a project can be well maintained and still not be open source.
| Project | Health | License | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lightdash | 94 · Healthy | Free core, paid extrasMIT | 6.2k |
| Deepnote | 89 · Healthy | Free to useApache-2.0 | 3.0k |
| Metabase | 88 · Healthy | Free core, paid extrasAGPL-3.0 | 50k |
| Redash | 78 · Stable | Free to useBSD-2-Clause | 29k |
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