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Datawrapper vs OpenHouse
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Datawrapper and OpenHouse — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Datawrapper vs OpenHouse: at a glance
What is Datawrapper?
Datawrapper lets locator maps use your own icons, then keeps fixing small chart behaviours.
Datawrapper's changelog remains a stream of small, dated changes to individual chart types. The largest recent item lets locator-map authors pick from a larger icon set or upload their own marker icons, with backgrounds or outlines to separate them from the map. Around it sit fixes for custom month ticks, archive search surviving a re-sort, row highlighting in arrow and dot plots, and a batch of new boundary maps for Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil and US ZIP areas.
What is OpenHouse?
OpenHouse records why table maintenance fails and adds timezone-aware retention.
OpenHouse landed Views M1 on October 30, with create, replace, list and delete over its commit-only engine behind database-scoped gating. On November 3 it shipped two operational changes: the Optimizer now stores a failure reason for each failed maintenance operation, and retention policies on string-date columns can use a timezone instead of UTC.
Datawrapper vs OpenHouse: editorial side-by-side
Datawrapper
5.0ANALYTICS
Datawrapper lets locator maps use your own icons, then keeps fixing small chart behaviours.
◆ Current state
Datawrapper's changelog remains a stream of small, dated changes to individual chart types. The largest recent item lets locator-map authors pick from a larger icon set or upload their own marker icons, with backgrounds or outlines to separate them from the map. Around it sit fixes for custom month ticks, archive search surviving a re-sort, row highlighting in arrow and dot plots, and a batch of new boundary maps for Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil and US ZIP areas.
◆ Where it's heading
The work is spread across chart types rather than concentrated on one bet: maps get the most attention, with icon customization, dark-mode zoom controls and monthly boundary additions. Expect the same cadence of per-chart refinements, with maps continuing to receive the visible upgrades.
◆ Prediction
More map customization is the likeliest next step, following custom icons with further marker or label styling options; the entries give no sign of a new chart type.
OpenHouse
5.0ANALYTICS
OpenHouse records why table maintenance fails and adds timezone-aware retention.
◆ Current state
OpenHouse landed Views M1 on October 30, with create, replace, list and delete over its commit-only engine behind database-scoped gating. On November 3 it shipped two operational changes: the Optimizer now stores a failure reason for each failed maintenance operation, and retention policies on string-date columns can use a timezone instead of UTC.
◆ Where it's heading
Feature series run in parallel: views, column defaults, and now table maintenance operations. The failure-reason work is framed as groundwork for dashboards and transient-versus-permanent classification. Retention timezone support is split across a backend PR and a Spark 3.5 SQL PR, the same stacked pattern used elsewhere.
◆ Prediction
Expect the Spark SQL half of retention timezones (#735) and further Optimizer failure-visibility work, likely failure classification.
Alternatives to Datawrapper and OpenHouse
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Datawrapper or OpenHouse.
Tinylytics
Tinylytics adds account-wide IP ignores and monitoring-only sites
DebugBear
DebugBear is growing from performance testing into uptime, browser support and ad-impact data.
OpenReplay
OpenReplay lets self-hosters block the hosts a recorded session can make its asset cacher fetch.
OpenCTI
OpenCTI accepts Filigran licenses and closes a draft-access hole in its TAXII routes.
InfluxDB
InfluxDB keeps patching its 3.11 and 3.12 lines, now with a catalog repair tool.
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Recent activity from Datawrapper and OpenHouse
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoDatawrapper2026-11-04 / locator maps
- 1d agoOpenHousev0.5.548: Optimizer: capture and persist operation failure reason (#813)
- 1d agoOpenHousev0.5.547: Allow retention to use non-UTC date strings (#732)
- 2d agoDatawrapper2026-11-03 / multiple lines, multiple columns and dual axis charts
- 3d agoDatawrapper2026-11-02 / archive
- 3d agoDatawrapper2026-11-02 / arrow, range and dot plots
- 5d agoOpenHousev0.5.546: Spark CREATE VIEW keeps server-owned location
- 5d agoOpenHousev0.5.545: Views M1: single-layer ViewsService over the commit-only engine (#843)
- 6d agoDatawrapperOctober map additions: Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, US ZIP areas
- 6d agoDatawrapper2026-10-30 / multiple lines
- 7d agoOpenHousev0.5.544: jobs scheduler table declares column-defaults
- 8d agoOpenHousev0.5.543: Add integration tests for snapshot expiration with refs (#492)
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Datawrapper and OpenHouse?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Datawrapper and OpenHouse are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 5.0 vs 5.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Datawrapper better than OpenHouse?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Datawrapper and OpenHouse are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 5.0 vs 5.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Datawrapper?
Top Datawrapper alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Datawrapper alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/datawrapper for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to OpenHouse?
Top OpenHouse alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "OpenHouse alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/openhouse for the full list with editorial commentary on each.