The 14 best open source analytics tools
Blog post from Snowplow
Open-source analytics tools offer various functionalities across categories such as behavioral data platforms, product analytics, A/B testing, customer data platforms (CDPs), data validation, analytics engineering, anomaly detection, databases, and data visualization. Snowplow, a prominent behavioral data platform, emphasizes data ownership and integration with cloud data warehouses, while Countly and PostHog provide mobile and self-hosted product analytics, respectively. Wasabi serves real-time A/B testing but lacks recent development, and Grouparoo facilitates data integration with cloud-based tools. Great Expectations and dbt enhance data validation and transformation workflows, though dbt focuses solely on transformation. Anomaly detection is covered by Hastic, which integrates with Grafana. For databases, Apache Druid and Timescale cater to real-time and time-series data needs. Visualization tools such as Superset, Metabase, and Redash offer diverse querying and visualization capabilities, though they vary in complexity and setup requirements. The adoption of open-source tools allows users to build customized data stacks, benefiting from community support and flexibility.