Superset
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Modern data exploration and visualization platform.
Actively maintained
Real momentum
Apache-2.0
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Middleware is an open-source analytics project, with 1.6k GitHub stars and a health score of 58/100. It committed 8 times in the last twelve months across 6 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: Apache-2.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-08-03 |
| Days since last commit | 14 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 4 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 8 |
| Months with activity | 6 of 12 |
| Last release | 2025-05-30 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Category | Analytics |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Middleware is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.
Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.
Slowing down. Middleware recorded 8 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 6 of those months and 4 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-03. Last release: 2025-05-30. Commits have thinned out over the last year.
Middleware is published under Apache-2.0. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
38 open-source implementations, 18 of them actively maintained, led by Superset at 74k stars. Saturation score 63/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.
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