Mathesar
An intuitive spreadsheet-like interface that lets users of all technical skill levels view, edit, query, and collaborate on Postgres data directly. 100% open source and self hosted, with native Postgres access control.
Mathesar is an open-source no-code database project on GitHub under the GPL-3.0 license (strong copyleft), with 5.2k stars. It is built with Svelte, TypeScript, Django and Postgres. Its last push was 6 days ago.
- Stars
- 5.2k
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Activity
- Active
- Latest release
- 0.12.0
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- A spreadsheet-like web interface for viewing, editing and querying data directly in PostgreSQL, using Postgres roles for access control.
- Adopt it when
- Non-technical colleagues need to work with data in an existing Postgres database and you want them to use the real tables, not a copy.
- Watch out
- Still pre-1.0, and it only works with PostgreSQL.
- Ready for
- Usable
- Runs as
- Self-hosted server and cloud service
- Built with
- Python, Django, Svelte, TypeScript and PostgreSQL
- How established
- Established: started 5 years ago, latest release 0.12.0.
- What the license allows
- Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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