Data Pipelines

Alternatives to Meltano

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Maintenance and shipping signals are strong.
Health score: 85/100.
Shipping score: 89/100.

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Best overallDagster

Highest organic ToolVitals fit for this use case.

Healthier optionsDagster, dbt, Apache Airflow, Debezium

Stronger current public-health signal than Meltano.

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

Useful when portability and inspectability matter.

License unknown, source-visible signalsBenthos, RudderStack

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12 tools

Dagster

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

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Health100

Shipping100

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Stars15.9k

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dbt

dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.

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Health100

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Stars13.5k

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Apache Airflow

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

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Health93

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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

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Confidence99

Stars13k

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CocoIndex

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

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Health95

Shipping100

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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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Unstract

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

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Health96

Shipping89

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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

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Score96

Confidence100

Stars4.8k

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RudderStack

Privacy and Security focused Segment-alternative, in Golang and React

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Health96

Shipping89

Score95

Confidence100

Stars4.5k

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Feldera

Incremental computation engine.

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Health93

Shipping100

Score97

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Stars2k

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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.

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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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