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OpenHouse vs Tinylytics
A side-by-side editorial comparison of OpenHouse and Tinylytics — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
OpenHouse vs Tinylytics: at a glance
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.
What is Tinylytics?
Tinylytics adds account-wide IP ignores and monitoring-only sites
Tinylytics now lets users ignore IP addresses across all their sites at once and switch a site to monitoring only, with new embed options. October brought a simpler embed script, exclusion of cloud-network and Tor traffic, an Ultra-only SEO audit that uses an AI model to rank fixes, and automatic form tracking.
OpenHouse vs Tinylytics: editorial side-by-side
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.
Tinylytics
5.0ANALYTICS
Tinylytics adds account-wide IP ignores and monitoring-only sites
◆ Current state
Tinylytics now lets users ignore IP addresses across all their sites at once and switch a site to monitoring only, with new embed options. October brought a simpler embed script, exclusion of cloud-network and Tor traffic, an Ultra-only SEO audit that uses an AI model to rank fixes, and automatic form tracking.
◆ Where it's heading
Most recent releases are about cleaner numbers: bot filtering, network exclusions and now account-level IP rules. The SEO audit and MCP tooling are the only moves outside that, both on the higher plans.
◆ Prediction
More account-level settings that apply across sites are likely, following the IP rules; the entries do not show a new product area coming.
Alternatives to OpenHouse and Tinylytics
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 OpenHouse or Tinylytics.
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.
Basedash
Basedash adds verified dashboards so teams know which numbers to trust.
OpenPanel
OpenPanel tags six supporter builds in two days, from 3.21 to 3.23.2, with no notes.
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Recent activity from OpenHouse and Tinylytics
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 4h agoTinylyticsAccount-wide IP ignore rules, monitoring-only sites and new embed options
- 21h agoOpenHousev0.5.548: Optimizer: capture and persist operation failure reason (#813)
- 1d agoOpenHousev0.5.547: Allow retention to use non-UTC date strings (#732)
- 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 agoOpenHousev0.5.544: jobs scheduler table declares column-defaults
- 7d agoOpenHousev0.5.543: Add integration tests for snapshot expiration with refs (#492)
- 8d agoTinylyticsA simpler embed script, cleaner stats and archiving that keeps your history
- 15d agoTinylyticsAn SEO audit with a ranked fix list, page names, and imports that keep their dates
- 20d agoTinylyticsAutomatic form tracking, a Direct row in Referrers, and more countries in email reports
- 29d agoTinylyticsStat cards, new widget looks, Developer mode, and achievements
- 1mo agoTinylyticsCleaner stats: Singapore bot traffic is now filtered out
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between OpenHouse and Tinylytics?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. OpenHouse and Tinylytics 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 OpenHouse better than Tinylytics?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. OpenHouse and Tinylytics 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 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.
What are the best alternatives to Tinylytics?
Top Tinylytics alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Tinylytics alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/tinylytics for the full list with editorial commentary on each.