Rill delivers a fast path from data lake to dashboard. For data engineers and analysts, it provides rapid, self-service dashboards built directly on raw data lakes, eliminating traditional BI complexity.
For data consumers, it ensures reliable, fast-loading dashboards with accurate, real-time metrics.
Unlike most BI tools, Rill comes with its own embedded in-memory database powered by DuckDB or ClickHouse. Data and compute are co-located, and queries return in milliseconds, so you can pivot, slice, and drill-down into your data instantly.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/rilldata/rill
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Developer: Rill Data, Inc
License: Apache License 2.0

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