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Metabase vs Qlik: What are the differences?

Developers describe Metabase as "An open-source business intelligence tool". It is an easy way to generate charts and dashboards, ask simple ad hoc queries without using SQL, and see detailed information about rows in your Database. You can set it up in under 5 minutes, and then give yourself and others a place to ask simple questions and understand the data your application is generating. On the other hand, Qlik is detailed as "Accelerate business value through data". Turn your data into business value faster with Qlik, the only end-to-end data integration and data analytics solutions for modern business intelligence.

Metabase and Qlik belong to "Business Intelligence" category of the tech stack.

Metabase is an open source tool with 20.3K GitHub stars and 2.69K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Metabase's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Metabase
Pros of Qlik
  • 62
    Database visualisation
  • 45
    Open Source
  • 41
    Easy setup
  • 36
    Dashboard out of the box
  • 23
    Free
  • 14
    Simple
  • 9
    Support for many dbs
  • 7
    Easy embedding
  • 6
    Easy
  • 6
    It's good
  • 5
    AGPL : wont help with adoption but depends on your goal
  • 5
    BI doesn't get easier than that
  • 4
    Google analytics integration
  • 4
    Multiple integrations
  • 4
    Easy set up
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    Cons of Metabase
    Cons of Qlik
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      Harder to setup than similar tools
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      What is Metabase?

      It is an easy way to generate charts and dashboards, ask simple ad hoc queries without using SQL, and see detailed information about rows in your Database. You can set it up in under 5 minutes, and then give yourself and others a place to ask simple questions and understand the data your application is generating.

      What is Qlik?

      Turn your data into business value faster with Qlik, the only end-to-end data integration and data analytics solutions for modern business intelligence.

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