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Lightdash vs olake
Lightdash has 6,145 GitHub stars, 777 forks, 1,018 open issues and last shipped today. olake has 1,453 stars, 252 forks, 178 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Lightdash leads on adoption by 323% (6,145 vs 1,453 stars). Lightdash is written in TypeScript under a custom or non-standard licence; olake is written in Go under Apache-2.0. Lightdash has attracted 13% as many forks as stars, olake 17%. Lightdash was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Lightdash | olake | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 6.1K | ★ 1.5K |
| License | Custom / other | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-20 | 2026-09-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 777 | ⑂ 252 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Lightdash if
- You weight community size — 6.1K stars and counting
- You want the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick olake if
- You want the olake feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and olake fits your workflow better
About Lightdash
Lightdash is an open source, agentic business intelligence platform for modern data teams, written in TypeScript and distributed under a NOASSERTION license. It lives in the data and analytics ecosystem, specifically the data engineering and integration space, and it is built around dbt and warehouse native workflows. The project describes itself as agentic BI, meaning analytics is intended to move at the speed of code rather than through point and click configuration alone.
read the full Lightdash overview →
About olake
OLake Go is an open source data ingestion engine written in Go and licensed under Apache 2.0. It replicates transactional databases, Apache Kafka, and S3 into Apache Iceberg or plain Parquet, and it provides a web UI and a command line interface for building scalable, real time pipelines. The project sits in the Apache Iceberg and lakehouse ecosystem, where its stated goal is to move data into vendor neutral table formats that can be read by query engines and warehouses.
read the full olake overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Lightdash or olake more popular?
Lightdash has 6,145 GitHub stars and olake has 1,453. Lightdash has the larger community by that measure.
Are Lightdash and olake free?
Both are open source. Lightdash has no licence declared in this registry, and olake is licensed under Apache-2.0. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Lightdash and olake?
Lightdash is written in TypeScript and olake in Go. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Lightdash or olake?
Choose Lightdash if you want the larger community (6,145 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose olake if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.