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Metabase vs react-native-gifted-charts
Metabase has 49,323 GitHub stars, 6,824 forks, 4,346 open issues and last shipped yesterday. react-native-gifted-charts has 1,369 stars, 210 forks, 100 open issues and last shipped 10 days ago. Metabase leads on adoption by 3,503% (49,323 vs 1,369 stars). Metabase is written in Clojure under a custom or non-standard licence; react-native-gifted-charts is written in TypeScript under MIT. Metabase has attracted 14% as many forks as stars, react-native-gifted-charts 15%. Metabase was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (data-visualization), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
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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| Metabase | react-native-gifted-charts | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 49K | ★ 1.4K |
| License | Custom / other | MIT |
| Written in | Clojure | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-09 |
| Forks | ⑂ 6.8K | ⑂ 210 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Metabase if
- You weight community size — 49K stars and counting
- You want the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches Clojure
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick react-native-gifted-charts if
- You want the react-native-gifted-charts feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and react-native-gifted-charts fits your workflow better
About Metabase
Metabase is an open source business intelligence and embedded analytics tool, written in Clojure, that lets everyone in a company ask questions of their data and build dashboards without needing to know SQL.
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About react-native-gifted-charts
react native gifted charts is an MIT licensed TypeScript library for React Native that renders bar, line, area, pie, donut, stacked bar, population pyramid, radar, bubble, scatter and candlestick charts, and it is built for React Native and Expo developers who need animated, customisable data visualisation inside the React Native component model.
read the full react-native-gifted-charts overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Metabase or react-native-gifted-charts more popular?
Metabase has 49,323 GitHub stars and react-native-gifted-charts has 1,369. Metabase has the larger community by that measure.
Are Metabase and react-native-gifted-charts free?
Both are open source. Metabase has no licence declared in this registry, and react-native-gifted-charts is licensed under MIT. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Metabase and react-native-gifted-charts?
Metabase is written in Clojure and react-native-gifted-charts in TypeScript. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Metabase or react-native-gifted-charts?
Choose Metabase if you want the larger community (49,323 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose react-native-gifted-charts if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.