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Data Pipelines

Alternatives to Sail

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  • Maintenance and shipping signals are strong.
  • Health score: 93/100.
  • Shipping score: 100/100.

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Best overallDagster

Highest organic ToolVitals fit for this use case.

Healthier optionsDagster, dbt, CocoIndex, MLRun

Stronger current public-health signal than Sail.

Open-source/self-hostedDagster, dbt, CocoIndex, MLRun

Useful when portability and inspectability matter.

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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
Confidence99
Stars15.6k
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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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Health98
Shipping95
Score98
Confidence100
Stars12.9k
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CocoIndex

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

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Health95
Shipping100
Score97
Confidence97
Stars10.1k
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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.

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Health93
Shipping100
Score97
Confidence97
Stars1.7k
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Pixeltable

Data Infrastructure providing a declarative, incremental approach for multimodal AI workloads.

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Health91
Shipping98
Score95
Confidence98
Stars1.6k
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Apache Airflow

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

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Health91
Shipping92
Score94
Confidence100
Stars45.6k
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Benthos

Data streaming processor with yaml-driven pipeline configuration

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Health95
Shipping100
Score94
Confidence78
Stars8.7k
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08

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.

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Health92
Shipping95
Score94
Confidence89
Stars6.4k
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09

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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Health88
Shipping95
Score93
Confidence99
Stars4.8k
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RudderStack

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

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Health96
Shipping87
Score93
Confidence89
Stars4.4k
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Bruin

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

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Health91
Shipping100
Score94
Confidence83
Stars1.6k
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