Recently, Atlassian acquired the proprietary BI platform Chart.io, started to downsize the Chart.io team, and announced their intention to shut down t

Apache Superset as a Chart.io Alternative

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2021-07-28 13:00:04

Recently, Atlassian acquired the proprietary BI platform Chart.io, started to downsize the Chart.io team, and announced their intention to shut down the platform.

This isn’t a new phenomenon. Given how mature and dynamic the BI market is, consolidation has been accelerating over the past few years:

While consolidation is likely to continue, these concerns don’t arise when your BI platform is open source. Whether you're using a commercial vendor or self-hosting, you have immense flexibility with open source.

Apache Superset is the most popular and mature open-source business intelligence platform out there. In this post, I'll make the case for why Superset is the most compelling alternative to Chart.io.

Chart.io was known for pioneering visual SQL, a no-code interface for preparing data for visualization. Superset has Explore, a no-code interface that unlocks the same capability.

Chart.io has a limited set of chart types (only 17). Superset ships with more than 40 charts and this list is quickly growing). More importantly, Superset lets you develop and add new custom visualizations.