Redash vs Superset
Redash and Superset are both business intelligence software. Redash is open source under BSD-2-Clause, with 29k GitHub stars. Superset is open source under Apache-2.0, with 75k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Redash when
- Your analysts work in SQL and want a simple query-and-dashboard tool.
- Pick Superset when
- A data team wants a free, scalable BI tool and has engineers to deploy and maintain it.
Side by side
Connects to many data sources so SQL users can write queries, visualise results and share dashboards and alerts.
A BI web application for exploring data, building charts and dashboards and running SQL against most SQL databases.
After Databricks acquired it, development moved to the community and slowed for a period.
Operating it (Python, Redis, a metadata database, caching, upgrades) takes real effort; Preset sells a hosted version.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Python, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL and Redis
Python, Flask, TypeScript, React, Redis and PostgreSQL
Open source, BSD-2-Clause (permissive)
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice. (both)
29k GitHub stars
75k GitHub stars
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release v26.9.0.
Established: started 11 years ago, latest release 6.1.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.