Rill Data Blog
rilldata.com · Company blog · on HN since 2023
Rill Data, a company building the Rill analytics tool, writes about SQL semantic layers, real-time analytics databases and open table formats.
What HN saysHN commenters mention Rill as a polished, open-source DuckDB-powered BI tool with strong visualizations and pivot tables, in lists of similar products.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Rill: Transform data sets into powerful, opinionated dashboards using SQL4 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 2Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents3 people · 4 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
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- 4The Rise of the Declarative Data Stack2 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 5Data Talks on the Rocks 4 – Alexey Milovidov, ClickHouse2 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 6BI-as-Code and the New Era of GenBI2 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 7Like MS Excel, Pivot tables never die1 people · 32 points · first shared 2025 · 52 comments on HN
- 8The Open Table Format Revolution: Why Hyperscalers Betting on Managed Iceberg1 people · 5 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 9AI Reveals Why BI Still Matters (Hint: It's Not Dashboards)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 10Data Talks on the Rocks 3 – Lloyd Tabb1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 11Building an Agent-Friendly, Local-First Analytics Stack1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 12We Built Rill with DuckDB1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 13AI agents can query your data – but who stewards the answers?1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 14Instant analytics for your open source GitHub projects1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
fenghorn · 2025-03-12
The UI aesthetics look similar to the excellent Rill, also powered by DuckDB: https://www.rilldata.com/
Rill has better built in visualizations and pivot tables and overall a polished product with open-source code in Go/Svelte. But the DuckDB UI has very nice Jupyter notebook-style "cells" for editing SQL queries.
rustyconover · 2025-10-19
There are so many!
Rill Data - https://www.rilldata.com Summer - https://summer.io Hex - https://hex.tech Evidence - https://evidence.dev
taffit · 2024-11-26
This also came to my mind when I heard `rill`, coming from https://www.rilldata.com/ .