#sql - open-source, self-hostable tools

// COMPARISONS

BI and dashboards Building dashboards without Power BI: Metabase, Superset and Redash compared on licensing, what you have to run, who maintains them and what paid plans keep.

// ENTRIES

5 entries

Redash

Turn your SQL queries into charts and shared dashboards in the browser: a BSD-licensed open source BI tool, maintained by its own community since 2023.

2026.10.07READ

Light-theme editor showing a 37-table PostgreSQL schema, a pink Tenancy zone and a yellow sticky note on the canvas.

Thoth Blueprint

Draw a MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite schema in the browser, then export SQL, Mermaid or Laravel, TypeORM and Django migrations. Diagrams stay in IndexedDB.

2026.07.13READ

Dark-theme editor with a banking schema of one-to-many linked tables and the transactions table open in the left panel.

drawDB

Draw a database schema in the browser without signing up and get the SQL for six engines, or start from an existing database. AGPL-licensed and self-hostable.

2026.05.15READ

Metabase

Dashboards without writing SQL: an AGPL business intelligence tool that keeps SSO, row-level security and full app embedding for its Pro and Enterprise plans.

2026.05.11READ

Apache Superset

Dashboards on your SQL warehouse, with or without code. A BI tool from the Apache Software Foundation that runs in production on Kubernetes, Redis and Celery.