10 Best Looker Alternatives in 2024 | A Practitioner Review

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Looker

Looker is known for its robust modeling layer and self-service capabilities, which are often the main reasons businesses choose it in the first place. Data modeling in Looker allows you to define metrics and dimensions centrally, ensuring consistency across all your reports and dashboards. This is a big deal if you’re dealing with complex data sets and want to maintain a single source of truth across your organization.

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Holistics.io

Analytics As-Code: Looker's lack of robust metric modeling leads to dependency on derived tables for complex operations, which makes it vulnerable to upstream logic changes (for example: dimension name change). With Holistics, data teams benefit from a well-designed modeling language (not string-based JSON/YAML/Jinja) with proper typing structure. This enables things like autocomplete, static typing, and module systems (code reusability).

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Metabase

While Metabase may not offer the same depth in modeling features or the proprietary semantic layer (LookML) that Looker does, it can integrate with Cube.dev to provide a viable, modern, open-source alternative. Additionally, Metabase's alert feature and its general adequacy for IT-related reporting present a valuable, lightweight solution for teams not requiring the full functionality of Looker.

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QlikSense

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Microsoft Power BI

When looking for an alternative, it’s advised to find a tool that offers similar semantic modeling capabilities, especially if consistency and accuracy in reporting are crucial for your business. Tools like Holistics or Power BI, for example, also offer similar modeling features, allowing you to manage and define business metrics centrally.

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Sisense

Sisense Pricing: Similar to Looker, Sisense also does not provide public pricing information. Pricing is typically customized based on factors like the number of users, data volume, and specific business needs, and requires a conversation with their sales team to get a quote.

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Lightdash

Lightdash is a relatively new open-source business intelligence solution that can connect to a user's dbt project and allow them to add metrics directly in the data transformation layer, then create and share insights with the whole team.

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ThoughtSpot

Thoughtspot makes a good Looker alternative as it's also built for self-service analytics, offering a Looker-like explore-type interface. They have a strong search function that allows users to ask and get answers to data questions using natural language.

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Sigma Computing

Sigma Computing combines the power of SQL with an intuitive, spreadsheet-like interface, making it accessible for both technical and non-technical users. This design allows users to interact with data in a familiar spreadsheet interface while still leveraging the full capabilities of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, and BigQuery.

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