Featured app • Metabase

Plain English is now a query language

Metabase puts the company database in front of the people who actually have the questions: ask in plain English and Metabot writes the query, or build it visually, or drop into the SQL editor if that is faster. Every answer shows the query behind it, so the number can be checked rather than taken on trust, and a semantic layer keeps revenue meaning the same thing on every dashboard. It connects to more than 40 sources including Snowflake, BigQuery, and Postgres, it is open source with 49,500 GitHub stars, and Hugging Face, Linear, Capital One, and McDonald's run analytics on it.

What is it:

An open-source analytics platform that lets anyone ask questions of the company database without writing a line of SQL.

Who is it for:

Teams where every question about the numbers queues behind the one person who can write queries.

Alternative to:

Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Sigma, Redash, Superset, or a spreadsheet somebody exports by hand every Monday morning.

Why we like it:

We like Metabase because you can see the query behind every answer, so the number is checkable rather than just confident.

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