Data tooling landscape

Open-source data exploration and visualisation platform.

• Open source

Cloud analytics platform spanning connectors, transformation, dashboards, workflow automation and AI, priced by consumption credits with unlimited users rather than per seat.

• Commercial

BI built natively on dbt, taking metrics from the dbt project as the semantic layer. Open source to self-host, with a cloud tier priced per month rather than per seat.

• Open core

BI platform on Google Cloud with a modelling layer, LookML, for governed metrics.

• Cloud service

Metabase

Visualisation & BI Plane · BI & Dashboards

Open-source BI tool for questions, dashboards and embedded analytics.

• Open core

Omni

Visualisation & BI Plane · BI & Dashboards

BI that pairs a shared data model with raw SQL, building the model progressively out of the analysis people actually do rather than requiring it up front.

• Commercial

Microsoft's BI platform for semantic models, reports and dashboards, integrated with Fabric.

• Commercial

Qlik Sense

Visualisation & BI Plane · BI & Dashboards

Analytics platform with an associative engine for exploring data.

• Commercial

Sigma

Visualisation & BI Plane · BI & Dashboards

Spreadsheet-style analytics that queries the cloud warehouse directly, covering ad hoc analysis, dashboards, data apps and embedded analytics without extracting data.

• Commercial

Visual analytics and BI platform for building interactive dashboards.

• Commercial

ThoughtSpot

Visualisation & BI Plane · BI & Dashboards

Search and AI-driven analytics on cloud data, sold as an analytics product and an embedded SDK, with LLM usage included in the subscription rather than metered.

• Commercial