Metabase

Metabase is an open-source business intelligence (BI) tool that allows users to create charts, dashboards, and reports from various data sources. It's designed to make data accessible to everyone in a company, from analysts to non-technical business users, enabling self-service data exploration…

Key facts

First appeared: 2015
Category: technology
Problem solved: Metabase was created to bridge the gap between complex data and non-technical business users, allowing them to independently ask questions and get insights from their company's data without relying on data analysts for every query. It aimed to make powerful business intelligence accessible, affordable, and easy to deploy.
Platforms: Kubernetes, Linux, Windows (via Docker/JVM), Cloud hosting providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), macOS, Docker

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Google Cloud Platform
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AWS (EC2, RDS)
Amazon Redshift
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
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Docker

Notable users

NPR
HelloFresh
Treehouse
ACLU
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