Data Pipelines Tools

Best Data Pipelines tools by public signals

These picks are computed from scored public evidence. Use the openness column in the ranking to separate OSI-approved, source-available, open-core, proprietary, and unverified-license tools.

Best overallApache Airflow98 score License-safe pickApache AirflowOSI-approved OSS Fastest shippingApache Airflow98 shipping

Use Case Rankings

Ordered by ToolVitals score, then health, shipping, confidence, GitHub stars, and name.

#	Tool	Health	Shipping	Openness	Stars	Score	Status
01	Apache Airflow Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows	98	98	OSI-approved OSS	46.8k	98	Active
02	dbt dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.	98	98	OSI-approved OSS	13.8k	98	Active
03	Debezium Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://github.com/debezium/dbz/issues.	98	97	OSI-approved OSS	13.1k	98	Active
04	texera Collaborative Machine-Learning-Centric Data Analytics Using Workflows	98	97	OSI-approved OSS	314	98	Active
05	Feldera Incremental computation engine.	97	97	OSI-approved OSS	2.1k	97	Active
06	Bruin Data pipeline platform with SQL, Python, and quality checks.	97	97	OSI-approved OSS	1.7k	97	Active
07	Dagster An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.	97	96	OSI-approved OSS	16.1k	97	Active
08	AtroCore Open-source data management and system integration platform.	96	97	OSI-approved OSS	235	97	Active
09	Sail Drop-in Apache Spark replacement written in Rust for batch and streaming workloads.	97	95	OSI-approved OSS	3.4k	96	Active
10	Open Wearables Self-hosted platform to unify wearable health data through one AI-ready API.	97	95	OSI-approved OSS	2.5k	96	Active
11	HPCC Systems Open-source distributed data processing and analytics platform for large-scale data workflows.	96	97	OSI-approved OSS	616	96	Active
12	CloudQuery Data pipelines for cloud config and security data. Build cloud asset inventory, CSPM, FinOps, and vulnerability management solutions. Extract from AWS, Azure, GCP, and 70+ cloud and SaaS sources.	96	96	OSI-approved OSS	6.5k	96	Active
13	CocoIndex Incremental engine for long horizon agents 🌟 Star if you like it!	96	95	OSI-approved OSS	11.5k	96	Active
14	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.	96	95	OSI-approved OSS	1.7k	96	Active
15	Pixeltable Data Infrastructure providing a declarative, incremental approach for multimodal AI workloads.	96	95	OSI-approved OSS	1.6k	95	Active
16	Altimate Code Open-source agentic data engineering harness for dbt, SQL, and cloud warehouses.	95	95	OSI-approved OSS	811	95	Active
17	PRQL PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement	95	94	OSI-approved OSS	10.9k	95	Active
18	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	94	96	OSI-approved OSS	5.1k	95	Active
19	Unstract LLM-Driven Extraction of Unstructured Data — Built for API Deployments & ETL Pipeline Workflows	95	93	OSI-approved OSS	7.2k	94	Active
20	Apache DevLake Apache DevLake is an open-source dev data platform to ingest, analyze, and visualize the fragmented data from DevOps tools, extracting insights for engineering excellence, developer experience, and community growth.	95	93	OSI-approved OSS	3.1k	94	Active
21	Meltano Meltano: the declarative code-first data integration engine that powers your wildest data and ML-powered product ideas. Say goodbye to writing, maintaining, and scaling your own API integrations.	95	93	OSI-approved OSS	2.6k	94	Active
22	Arroyo Distributed stream processing engine in Rust	85	78	OSI-approved OSS	5k	82	Active
23	Multiwoven Open-source reverse ETL and customer data sync platform.	73	67	OSI-approved OSS	1.7k	70	Warning
24	Mage 🧙 Build, run, and manage data pipelines for integrating and transforming data.	75	57	OSI-approved OSS	8.8k	68	Active
25	DocETL Agentic LLM-powered data processing and ETL.	65	45	OSI-approved OSS	4.1k	57	Warning
26	aisheets Build, enrich, and transform datasets using AI models with no code	20	10	OSI-approved OSS	1.6k	16	Critical
27	HRFlow 🚀 Open source python repository of HR data Connectors.	13	4	OSI-approved OSS	41	9	Critical

Evidence Watch

Tracked tools with useful public signals but no verdict score yet.

Grouparoo

Data synchronization framework

— confidence

Not Scored

Tracked for context, but excluded from rankings because comparable open/source-visible evidence is unavailable.

Airbyte

The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.