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Superstore Dataset License: Can You Use It Commercially?

1,744 datasets. Pick your catch. Every guide here is built on what the catalog can actually prove.

1,744 datasets. Pick your catch.

Is commercial use of the GPL 2 declaration actually blocked?

Three usage tiers fall out of that reading, ordered by legal comfort:

One structural fact bounds every tier: the series ends 30 December 2018 and the file is static - version 2, last modified 11 September 2020 - so whatever you ship stays historically frozen by design.

License facts for the Superstore dataset and its alternatives (as of August 2026)
AttributeValue
Underlying content originTableau Superstore demo sample; circulated in copies under commercial delivery terms, Apache 2.0 and commercial delivery terms
Permissive alternativebravehart101/sample-supermarket-dataset, recorded as commercial delivery terms
VintageVersion 2, last modified 11 September 2020; static, orders end 30 December 2018
Datadory quality score6 of 10, versus a 7.81 average across the 1,744 cataloged datasets

Pick up where this leaves off

Every one of these ships with sample rows before you commit to anything.

Office Services & Supplies United States

Kaggle - Superstore Sales Dataset

Office Services & Supplies United States retail assortment

Office Depot / OfficeMax Product Catalog (Structured)

14 verified fields · plus additional fields on request …+11 more

Automotive Retail United States

U.S. Census Annual Retail Trade Survey / AIES - Motor Vehicle Dealers

NAICS · NAICS_LABEL · GEO_LABEL …+7 more

Commercial Printing United States national series, with state and…

US BLS Public Data API — PPI, CES & OES for Printing

status · responseTime · message …+10 more

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Questions worth asking

Can I use the Superstore dataset commercially?

Yes for internal analysis, teaching and portfolio work, which face no friction under the GPL 2 declaration on the Kaggle page. For distributing the rows inside a product, prefer the commercial delivery terms bravehart101/sample-supermarket-dataset mirror, because whether GPL 2 validly attaches to Tableau-derived sample data is unclear.

Which Superstore copy has the clearest commercial terms?

The bravehart101/sample-supermarket-dataset mirror, recorded as commercial delivery terms: copying, modifying, redistributing and commercializing require no permission and no attribution. Verify its columns before switching - other Superstore variants include Profit, Quantity and Discount fields this version lacks.