What are the best open source reporting tools?

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Best open source reporting tools	Price	Platforms	Last Updated
89 NextReports	Free	Windows, Linux	Jul 4, 2020
-- Jasper Reports	-	-	May 7, 2020
-- Pentaho	-	-	Jun 2, 2020
-- Sharp Develop Reports	-	-	Jun 16, 2020
-- QueryTree	Free / paid	Windows, Linux, Docker	May 15, 2020

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NextReports

Top Pro

Cross platform

NextReports Designer is a desktop application written in Java so it can run on any OS with a Java version 7+. See More

Top Con

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CaffeinatedAiakos's Experience

i am a new user and i just want to know how to use it See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux

Top Pro

Very stable

Top Con

Could use Libreoffice .odt output

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Top Pro

Supports exporting reports to different format

With NextReports you can design beautiful reports and you can export them to different formats of your choosing, for example pdf, excel and HTML are supported (there are also many other formats that are available). See More

Top Con

Stability of the new version 9.1

ConsiderateAsbolus's Experience

Very stable and easy to use See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Reports can be easily designed using a grid layout similar to excel. See More

Top Pro

Android app

There's a very good Android application called NextReports Sight which can be connected to the server and you can watch all the real time widgets from your phone. See More

Top Pro

API which can be used to run Next reports

NextReports Engine is a very simple Java api which can be used to run Next reports. See More

Top Pro

NextReports Server

NextReports Server brings security, centralization, dashboards, BI features, scheduling, monitoring and many other features. See More

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Jasper Reports

Top Pro

Has many more output formats than Nextreports

Top Con

Geared towards Java programmers

Extremely slow to load See More

ConsiderateAsbolus's Experience

Very unstable in Ubuntu 18.04, freeze every time I tried to Edit text See More

Top Pro

Easy to learn

Top Pro

Eclipse-based report designer is fairly easy to use

Jasperstudio report designer is easy enough to grok. It is full of features for designing your reports in a wysiwyg manner. See More

Top Pro

Can be run as a service (server version) that allows deep links to individual reports or embedded with your web app as a library

You may or may not want a server version with its own learning curve and API. With Jasper you have the option of server vs library. With either one you can whip up reports and make them available in PDF, XML, HTML, CSV, XLS, RTF or TXT format. It's not very difficult to do that with JasperReports. And there are many examples out there to learn from. See More

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Pentaho

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Sharp Develop Reports

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QueryTree

Top Pro

Simple

RickZeeland's Experience

Easily build and share reports based on databases like Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL or PostgreSQL. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Docker

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ELK Stack

Top Pro

Powerful

Deep search and data analytics and powerful data visualizations. See More

Top Con

Complex

Although well documented, installation and configuration can be daunting for beginners. Another easier option is using ELK as a service. See More

RickZeeland's Experience

The ELK Stack combines three open source solutions: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. It is used by well known organizations like Microsoft and Facebook to monitor log data. There is also a Bitnami ELK Stack For Windows / Linux / MacOS. See More

Top Pro

Very intuitive web interface.

Top Pro

Docker

Docker images available, makes installs quick and painless. See More

Top Pro

Windows

Although originating from the Linux world, Windows installation is also possible. See More

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Seal Report

Top Pro

Web Report Server

Requires IIS 7 or 8 with MVC4. See More

RickZeeland's Experience

Windows Open Source report tool for .Net Framework entirely written in C#, the source code is available on GitHub. See More

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Platforms:Windows

Top Pro

Multi database

Any database can be used, it's also possible to work without a database. See More

Top Pro

HTML 5 charts

Supports ChartJS, NVD3 and Plotly libraries. See More

Top Pro

Task scheduler

Top Pro

Report designer

Designer with drag and drop support. See More

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dotnet Report Builder

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ReportServer

Top Pro

Active community

Questions on the community forum are usually answered very quickly. Developers are active there. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Top Pro

Easy to use dashboards

Integrates user centric Dashboard components that allows for easy set up of Dashboards that highlighting the most important KPIs and reports. See More

Top Pro

Powerful scheduler

ReportServer has a powerful built-in scheduler to run reports at recurring intervals. Custom scheduler targets (e.g. webservices or SFTP uploads) can be specified via scripting. See More

Top Pro

Cross platform and web-based

ReportServer is a Java web application and can thus be installed on any OS supporting java. Being a web-app allows access to it from anywhere without the need to install additional client software See More

Top Pro

Enterprise version with support available

Besides the open source version, there is also the commercial ReportServer Enterprise edition which adds additional functionality, in particular, support for scripting and Crystal. See More

Top Pro

Provides intuitive ad-hoc reporting component

ReportServer's Dynamic List provides a very intuitive, yet powerful ad-hoc reporting component. See More

Top Pro

Supports multiple reorting engines including JasperReports and Eclipse BIRT

ReportServer integrates several reporting engines including the popular JasperReports, Eclipse BIRT and Crystal. See More

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Spago BI

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Helical Insight

Top Pro

Multi database

Supports all the JDBC4 compliant databases, NoSQL, Big Data, RDBMS, Cloud db, Columnar database etc. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Top Pro

Feature of NLP and machine learning

Top Pro

Open source

Top Pro

Easy to use

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12 Options Considered

My Recommendation for NextReports

My Recommendation for NextReports

Cross platform

Suspicious upvotes

Very stable

Could use Libreoffice .odt output

Supports exporting reports to different format

Stability of the new version 9.1

Easy to use

Android app

API which can be used to run Next reports

NextReports Server

My Recommendation for Jasper Reports

My Recommendation for Jasper Reports

Has many more output formats than Nextreports

Geared towards Java programmers

Easy to learn

Eclipse-based report designer is fairly easy to use

Can be run as a service (server version) that allows deep links to individual reports or embedded with your web app as a library

My Recommendation for Pentaho

My Recommendation for Pentaho

My Recommendation for Sharp Develop Reports

My Recommendation for Sharp Develop Reports

My Recommendation for QueryTree

My Recommendation for QueryTree

Simple

Embed in app

My Recommendation for ELK Stack

My Recommendation for ELK Stack

Powerful

Complex

Very intuitive web interface.

Docker

Windows

My Recommendation for Seal Report

My Recommendation for Seal Report

Web Report Server

Multi database

HTML 5 charts

Task scheduler

Report designer

My Recommendation for dotnet Report Builder

My Recommendation for dotnet Report Builder

My Recommendation for ReportServer

My Recommendation for ReportServer

Active community

Easy to use dashboards

Powerful scheduler

Cross platform and web-based

Enterprise version with support available

Provides intuitive ad-hoc reporting component

Supports multiple reorting engines including JasperReports and Eclipse BIRT

My Recommendation for EDA

My Recommendation for EDA

My Recommendation for Spago BI

My Recommendation for Spago BI

My Recommendation for Helical Insight

My Recommendation for Helical Insight

Multi database

Feature of NLP and machine learning

Open source

Easy to use

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