# Redash vs Spotfire

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Redash

| Attribute | Redash | Spotfire |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 51.2 (64% (medium)) | 45 (20% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 4 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 66 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 28,768 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source data visualization platform that lets teams query data from various databases and APIs using SQL, create interactive dashboards with multiple visualization types, and share data insights across the organization. Includes collaboration features like schema browsing, query snippets, caching, and alerts. | Spotfire is a visual analytics platform designed for industrial organizations where decision-making involves complex, fragmented data sources. It unifies data exploration, analytics, and AI in a shared environment, enabling engineers and domain experts to collaborate and transition from scattered insights to decisive action. |
| features.capabilities | `{"rls_sso":true,"paradigm":"governed_dashboards","free_tier":true,"managed_cloud":false,"self_hostable":true,"semantic_layer":"built_in","warehouse_native":true,"connector_breadth":"40+ databases (SQL, NoSQL, Big Data) and API data sources","scheduled_reports":true,"embedded_analytics":true}` | `{"nlq_ai":true,"paradigm":"governed_dashboards","self_hostable":true,"connector_breadth":"SQL databases, Python, R, real-time data streams, time-series data, and spatial ","scheduled_reports":true,"embedded_analytics":true}` |
| integrations.count | 41 | 4 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Amazon Athena"},{"name":"Amazon Aurora"},{"name":"Amazon DynamoDB"},{"name":"Amazon Redshift"},{"name":"Azure Data Explorer"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"ClickHouse"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"Druid"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Google BigQuery"},{"name":"Greenplum"},{"name":"Hive"},{"name":"Impala"},{"name":"InfluxDB"},{"name":"Microsoft SQL Server"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"Presto"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Google Analytics"},{"name":"Google Spreadsheets"},{"name":"JIRA"},{"name":"Python"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"JSON"},{"name":"Segment"},{"name":"Snowplow Analytics"},{"name":"Stitch"}]` | `[{"name":"SQL Server"},{"name":"Python"},{"name":"R"},{"name":"TIBCO Data Virtualization"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| license.spdx | BSD-2-Clause | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://redash.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T13:41:32.783Z"}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | open_source | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | 52 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v26.3.0","date":"2026-03-02T14:22:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v26.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v25.8.0","date":"2025-08-01T14:35:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v25.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v25.1.0","date":"2025-01-08T19:06:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v25.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v10.1.0","date":"2021-11-24T03:36:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v10.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v10.0.0","date":"2021-10-02T04:34:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v10.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v10.0.0-beta","date":"2021-06-21T21:20:57Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v10.0.0-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v9.0.0-beta","date":"2020-06-14T15:05:15Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v9.0.0-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v8.0.0","date":"2019-10-28T11:29:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v8.0.0-beta.2","date":"2019-09-18T12:46:22Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v8.0.0-beta.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v7.0.0","date":"2019-03-25T08:45:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v6.0.0","date":"2018-12-17T09:59:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v6.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v6.0.0-beta","date":"2018-12-04T20:25:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v6.0.0-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v5.0.2","date":"2018-10-18T11:59:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v5.0.1","date":"2018-09-28T14:17:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v5.0.0","date":"2018-09-21T14:16:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v4.0.2","date":"2018-09-20T06:01:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta","date":"2018-08-06T18:52:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.0.0-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v4.0.1","date":"2018-05-02T14:23:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v4.0.0","date":"2018-04-16T08:44:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getredash/redash/releases/tag/v4.0.0-rc.1","date":"2018-03-05T10:30:01Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v4.0.0-rc.1"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.1 | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=%40redash%2Fviz&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (BI Software)

| Capability | Redash | Spotfire |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| BI paradigm | Governed dashboards | Governed dashboards |
| Semantic / modelling layer | Built-in | - |
| **Engine** |  |  |
| Warehouse-native (SQL push-down) | ✓ | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Self-hostable / OSS core | ✓ | ✓ |
| Managed cloud available | ✗ | - |
| **Intelligence** |  |  |
| Natural-language query / AI copilot | - | ✓ |
| **Delivery** |  |  |
| Embedded / white-label analytics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduled reports / alerting | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Governance** |  |  |
| Row-level security & SSO/SAML | ✓ | - |
| **Commercial** |  |  |
| Per-seat pricing published | - | - |
| Free tier / free desktop | ✓ | - |
| **Ecosystem** |  |  |
| dbt-native integration | - | - |
| Data-source connector breadth | 40+ databases (SQL, NoSQL, Big Data) and API data sources | SQL databases, Python, R, real-time data streams, time-series data, and spatial |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:51:04.251Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*