The BI Battleground

Developer Sentiment Report: ThoughtSpot vs. Sigma vs. Omni

Data Source 2024-2025 Market Analysis

Executive Summary

The modern Business Intelligence (BI) landscape has shifted from "making dashboards" to enabling "data experiences." Our research highlights three distinct philosophies: ThoughtSpot pushes the "Search & AI" frontier, Sigma champions the "Spreadsheet Interface" on cloud data, and Omni attempts to unify the "UI speed" of discovery with the "Governance" of a semantic layer. This report breaks down how developers and analysts actually feel about working with these tools.

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ThoughtSpot

The "Search & AI" Pioneer

NLP Liveboards

Sigma Computing

The Cloud Spreadsheet

Excel-Like Input Tables

Omni BI

The Unified Layer

Semantic Model Malloy-ish

Sentiment Scores (Aggregated)

Based on aggregated reviews & community feedback

Capability Profile

ThoughtSpot Profile

Comparing the "shape" of the platform across 5 key dimensions: Agility (Speed to insight), Governance (Trust & Logic reuse), Technical Depth (Code-ability), Adoption (End-user ease), and Embedding (API capabilities).

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Engineering Verdict on ThoughtSpot

👍 What they love

👎 Friction Points

Key Developer Quotes

"The search is magic for users, but TML (ThoughtSpot Modeling Language) feels a bit rigid compared to true code-based modeling."