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Alternatives to dbt

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  • Maintenance and shipping signals are strong.
  • Health score: 100/100.
  • Shipping score: 100/100.

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Best overallDagster

Highest organic ToolVitals fit for this use case.

Verified open/source-visibleDagster, Apache Airflow, Debezium, CocoIndex

Useful when portability and inspectability matter.

License unknown, source-visible signalsBenthos, RudderStack

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Best-fit data pipelines options

12 tools
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Dagster

An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.

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Health100
Shipping100
Score100
Confidence100
Stars15.9k
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Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows

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Health93
Shipping95
Score95
Confidence100
Stars46.3k
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Debezium

Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://github.com/debezium/dbz/issues.

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Health93
Shipping95
Score95
Confidence99
Stars13k
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CocoIndex

Incremental engine for long horizon agents 🌟 Star if you like it!

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Health95
Shipping100
Score98
Confidence100
Stars11.1k
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Benthos

Data streaming processor with yaml-driven pipeline configuration

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Health95
Shipping94
Score96
Confidence98
Stars8.7k
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06

Unstract

LLM-Driven Extraction of Unstructured Data — Built for API Deployments & ETL Pipeline Workflows

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Health96
Shipping89
Score95
Confidence100
Stars7k
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Jitsu

Jitsu is an open-source Segment alternative. Fully-scriptable data ingestion engine for modern data teams. Set-up a real-time data pipeline in minutes, not days

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Health92
Shipping98
Score96
Confidence100
Stars4.8k
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MLRun

MLRun is an open source MLOps platform for quickly building and managing continuous ML applications across their lifecycle. MLRun integrates into your development and CI/CD environment and automates the delivery of production data, ML pipelines, and online applications.

Active
Health93
Shipping100
Score97
Confidence100
Stars1.7k
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Bruin

Data pipeline platform with SQL, Python, and quality checks.

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Health91
Shipping98
Score95
Confidence95
Stars1.7k
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texera

Collaborative Machine-Learning-Centric Data Analytics Using Workflows

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Health93
Shipping95
Score95
Confidence97
Stars263
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