Superset
Modern data exploration and visualization platform.
High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.
Commit activity more than 97% of tracked projects; popularity in the top 1%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 75k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | superset-helm-chart-0.22.8 · 9 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 27 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Built with | Python |
Is Superset actively maintained?
Superset is under active development: 4805 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 762 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 90% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, superset-helm-chart-0.22.8, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Of the 33 projects we track in Analytics, Superset ranks #2 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Superset actually does
Superset is an analytics platform designed for data exploration and visualising datasets. It allows users to query information and build visual dashboards through a web interface. The project is implemented in Python and distributed under the Apache-2.0 licence.
Best fit: Data teams and technical organisations that need a self-hosted platform to query and visualise large datasets for internal stakeholders.
Worth knowing: Deploying and maintaining an analytics platform of this scale brings a significant operational burden, requiring careful management of user permissions, database connectors, and underlying query performance.
Deployment notes
As a Python-based application, it typically requires a separate relational database for metadata storage, a caching layer, and a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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