Redash vs Tableau
Redash and Tableau are both business intelligence software. Redash is open source under BSD-2-Clause, with 29k GitHub stars. Tableau is a commercial product from Salesforce, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Redash when
- Your analysts work in SQL and want a simple query-and-dashboard tool.
- Pick Tableau when
- Analysts need flexible visual exploration and polished dashboards across many data sources.
Side by side
Connects to many data sources so SQL users can write queries, visualise results and share dashboards and alerts.
Data visualisation and BI with drag-and-drop exploration, dashboards and governed sharing via Tableau Cloud or Server.
After Databricks acquired it, development moved to the community and slowed for a period.
Per-user licences are expensive and its direction is now shaped by Salesforce.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Desktop app, cloud service and self-hosted server
Python, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL and Redis
Not published
Open source, BSD-2-Clause (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Salesforce, Inc.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
29k GitHub stars
1.5k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release v26.9.0.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.