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Rill: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Rill is a business intelligence tool in which dashboards and metrics are defined as SQL and YAML files in a project, for example in GitHub. Rill Developer is a local application for connecting data sources, writing SQL or YAML models, defining metrics and previewing dashboards. Rill Cloud is a fully managed service for sharing dashboards, with AI chat, alerts and scheduled reports, and dashboards can be embedded in other applications. The source code is published on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 licence.

Rill Data, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, in the United States, and as a US company is subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. Its privacy policy states that its services are hosted in the United States, without naming a cloud provider or region, and that EU users transfer data to the US; it does not mention the GDPR or a data processing agreement. Because Rill Developer runs locally and the code is open source, you can work without a vendor cloud and keep data under your own control.

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Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Business Intelligence
Type
Product
Website
rilldata.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Rill

The European alternatives to Rill come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Rill

Rill is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Rill hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Rill is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Rill together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Rill?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Rill include Bissantz (DeltaMaster), Board International and RIB BI+ (formerly datapine). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Rill?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Rill include Kibana (Elastic). These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Rill GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Rill is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence: Dashboards, management reporting, self-service BI and embedded analytics on business data. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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