Metabase vs Salesforce

Metabase and Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #82) holds a narrow lead over Metabase (rank #165) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 51). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Salesforce is ahead of Metabase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Metabase is ahead of Salesforce. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Salesforce is ahead of Metabase. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Metabase is slightly ahead of Salesforce. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Metabase is ahead of Salesforce.

Metabase carries 50,225 GitHub stars across 100 public repos, with 21 repositories active in the last 90 days and 49 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 68,892 stars across 417 public repos, 75 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

Metabase is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Salesforce looks better where community is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.