{
  "aliases": [
    "Superset"
  ],
  "workflows": [
    "Analytics dashboards over ClickHouse or a warehouse",
    "Shared SQL exploration for analysts",
    "Embedded dashboards in internal tools"
  ],
  "advantages": [
    "Entirely Apache 2.0 with no paid edition",
    "Wide database support through SQLAlchemy",
    "Rich visualization catalog"
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "Several components to deploy (web, workers, cache, metadata DB)",
    "Configuration and upgrades require Python ops skills",
    "Query performance depends on the source database"
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
    "Python or Docker environment, metadata database and cache"
  ],
  "audiences": [
    "Data teams wanting open-source BI",
    "Platform teams embedding dashboards"
  ],
  "alternatives": [
    "metabase",
    "tableau",
    "power-bi",
    "grafana"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "bi",
    "dashboards",
    "sql",
    "self-hosted",
    "open-source",
    "python"
  ],
  "use_cases": [
    "build-dashboards"
  ],
  "operating_systems": [
    "linux",
    "macos",
    "web"
  ],
  "deployment_models": [
    "on-premises",
    "managed-cloud"
  ],
  "integrations": [
    "PostgreSQL",
    "ClickHouse",
    "DuckDB",
    "Trino",
    "BigQuery",
    "Snowflake",
    "Preset"
  ],
  "data_formats": [
    "SQL",
    "CSV export"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "Python",
    "TypeScript",
    "SQL"
  ],
  "self_hostable": true,
  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",
  "depth": "standard",
  "editorial_status": "reviewed",
  "visibility": "public",
  "featured": false,
  "author": "batch-D",
  "slug": "apache-superset",
  "name": "Apache Superset",
  "vendor": {
    "name": "Apache Software Foundation",
    "slug": "apache-software-foundation",
    "website": "https://www.apache.org/"
  },
  "homepage_url": "https://superset.apache.org/",
  "docs_url": "https://superset.apache.org/docs/intro",
  "repo_url": "https://github.com/apache/superset",
  "license_url": "https://github.com/apache/superset/blob/master/LICENSE.txt",
  "product_type": "application",
  "product_status": "active",
  "summary": "Apache-licensed BI web application with SQL Lab, a no-code chart builder, dashboards and connectors to any SQLAlchemy-compatible database",
  "description": "Apache Superset is an open-source business-intelligence web application maintained by the Apache Software Foundation under Apache 2.0; it originated at Airbnb. Superset connects to any database with a SQLAlchemy dialect (PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse, DuckDB, Trino, BigQuery, Snowflake and many more), offers SQL Lab for exploratory queries, a chart builder with dozens of visualization types, dashboards with native filters and cross-filtering, row-level security, alerts and reports, and a semantic layer of datasets with metrics and calculated columns. The back end is Python (Flask) with a React front end, and deployment is typically via Docker Compose, Helm or a Python installation with Celery workers and a cache for asynchronous queries.\n\nSuperset is the fully open-source alternative to commercial BI for teams willing to operate a multi-component web application; Preset provides a hosted version from the project's original author. Compared with Metabase it offers more chart types and finer-grained security but a steeper setup, and it relies on the connected database for query performance.",
  "capabilities": [
    "SQL Lab query editor with history and saved queries",
    "Chart builder with dozens of visualization types",
    "Dashboards with native filters and cross-filtering",
    "Datasets, metrics and calculated columns as a semantic layer",
    "Row-level security and role-based access",
    "Alerts and scheduled reports"
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "slug": "bi-dashboards",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "execution_modes": [
    "self-hosted",
    "cloud"
  ],
  "interfaces": [
    "web",
    "api"
  ],
  "source_model": "open-source",
  "license_spdx": "Apache-2.0",
  "pricing_model": [
    "open-source",
    "free"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://superset.apache.org/",
      "type": "official_site",
      "supports": [
        "name",
        "summary"
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",
      "title": "Apache Superset"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://superset.apache.org/docs/intro",
      "type": "official_docs",
      "supports": [
        "capabilities",
        "integrations"
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",
      "title": "Superset documentation"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/apache/superset/blob/master/LICENSE.txt",
      "type": "license_page",
      "supports": [
        "license_spdx",
        "source_model"
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",
      "title": "Superset LICENSE.txt (Apache 2.0)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/apache/superset",
      "type": "repository",
      "supports": [
        "repo_url"
      ],
      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",
      "title": "apache/superset"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high"
}