What is Redash?
Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company. Includes SQL editor, caching, alerts, and API access.
What Redash does
The capabilities that matter for bi software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- BI paradigm
- Governed dashboards
- Semantic / modelling layer
- None
- Warehouse-native (SQL push-down)
- ✓
- Self-hostable / OSS core
- ✓
- Managed cloud available
- ✓
- Natural-language query / AI copilot
- -
- Embedded / white-label analytics
- ✓
- Scheduled reports / alerting
- ✓
- Row-level security & SSO/SAML
- ✓
- Per-seat pricing published
- -
- Free tier / free desktop
- -
- dbt-native integration
- -
- Data-source connector breadth
- SQL, NoSQL, Big Data and API data sources across 40+ databases and integrations
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (40)
Independently observed- Amazon Athena
- Amazon Aurora
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Redshift
- Azure Data Explorer
- Cassandra
- ClickHouse
- Databricks
- Druid
- Elasticsearch
- Google BigQuery
- Google Analytics
- Google Spreadsheets
- Graphite
- Greenplum
- Hive
- Impala
- InfluxDB
- JIRA
- JSON
- MemSQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- Presto
- Rockset
- Salesforce
- ScyllaDB
- Segment
- Snowflake
- Snowplow Analytics
- Stitch
- TreasureData
- Vertica
- Yandex AppMetrica
- Yandex Metrica
- Python
- Axibase TSDB
Redash alternatives
Other bi software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Redash, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.19 | 15.2 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 48 | 0.10 | 5.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 25 | 0.10 | 2.6 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 84 | 0.03 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 0.15 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 28,720 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"rls_sso":true,"paradigm":"governed_dashboards","managed_cloud":true,"self_hostable":true,"semantic_layer":"none","warehouse_native":true,"connector_breadth":"SQL, NoSQL, Big Data and API data sources across 40+ databases and integrations","scheduled_reports":true,"embedded_analytics":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 45 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Python | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | BSD-2-Clause | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 212 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |