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 overallDagster100 score License-safe pickDagsterOSI-approved OSS Fastest shippingDagster100 shipping

Use Case Rankings

Ordered by ToolVitals score, health, shipping, confidence, and then adoption as a tie-breaker.

#	Tool	Health	Shipping	Openness	Stars	Score	Status
01	Dagster An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.	100	100	OSI-approved OSS	15.7k	100	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	95	OSI-approved OSS	13k	98	Active
03	CocoIndex Incremental engine for long horizon agents 🌟 Star if you like it!	95	100	OSI-approved OSS	10.3k	98	Active
04	Benthos Data streaming processor with yaml-driven pipeline configuration	95	100	License unknown	8.7k	98	Active
05	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.	93	100	OSI-approved OSS	1.7k	97	Active
06	Sail Drop-in Apache Spark replacement written in Rust for batch and streaming workloads.	93	100	OSI-approved OSS	2.9k	97	Active
07	RudderStack Privacy and Security focused Segment-alternative, in Golang and React	96	93	License unknown	4.4k	96	Active
08	Bruin Data pipeline platform with SQL, Python, and quality checks.	91	100	OSI-approved OSS	1.6k	96	Active
09	Apache Airflow Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows	93	95	OSI-approved OSS	45.8k	95	Active
10	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.	92	95	OSI-approved OSS	6.4k	95	Active
11	HPCC Systems Open-source distributed data processing and analytics platform for large-scale data workflows.	91	100	OSI-approved OSS	609	94	Active
12	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	88	95	OSI-approved OSS	4.8k	93	Active
13	Open Wearables Self-hosted platform to unify wearable health data through one AI-ready API.	91	89	OSI-approved OSS	1.9k	92	Active
14	Pixeltable Data Infrastructure providing a declarative, incremental approach for multimodal AI workloads.	83	98	OSI-approved OSS	1.6k	92	Active
15	Altimate Code Open-source agentic data engineering harness for dbt, SQL, and cloud warehouses.	88	92	OSI-approved OSS	670	91	Active
16	Pathway Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG.	87	87	License unknown	63k	90	Active
17	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.	87	63	OSI-approved OSS	3k	83	Active
18	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.	77	76	OSI-approved OSS	2.5k	83	Active
19	dbmazz CDC, radically simplified. One Rust binary for source-to-target data movement.	84	64	License unknown	11	81	Active
20	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.	83	69	License unknown	21.4k	81	Active
21	Multiwoven Open-source reverse ETL and customer data sync platform.	81	55	OSI-approved OSS	1.7k	76	Active
22	AtroCore Open-source data management and system integration platform.	72	69	OSI-approved OSS	222	75	Warning
23	Arroyo Distributed stream processing engine in Rust	65	48	OSI-approved OSS	4.9k	67	Warning
24	qData Open-source all-in-one data middle platform.	63	56	License unknown	472	66	Warning
25	Anyquery SQL query engine for querying apps, APIs, files, and SaaS data sources.	71	28	OSI-approved OSS	1.7k	64	Warning
26	Mage 🧙 Build, run, and manage data pipelines for integrating and transforming data.	67	21	OSI-approved OSS	8.8k	61	Warning
27	HRFlow 🚀 Open source python repository of HR data Connectors.	56	30	OSI-approved OSS	39	59	Warning
28	DocETL Agentic LLM-powered data processing and ETL.	67	21	OSI-approved OSS	3.8k	58	Warning
29	SyncMaven Open-source reverse-ETL and data activation platform.	36	0	License unknown	22	38	Critical
30	Automate DV dbt package for creating and loading Data Vault 2.0 compliant data warehouses.	33	0	OSI-approved OSS	588	36	Critical
31	cptn.io Open-source platform for building and deploying integrations and data pipelines.	33	0	OSI-approved OSS	493	35	Critical
32	Neosync Open Source Data Security Platform for Developers to Monitor and Detect PII, Anonymize Production Data and Sync it across environments.	27	0	OSI-approved OSS	4.2k	34	Critical
33	Documind Open-source platform for extracting structured data from documents using AI.	31	0	OSI-approved OSS	1.5k	33	Critical
34	Seldon Deployment & monitoring for machine learning at scale	31	0	License unknown	4.8k	33	Critical
35	Orchest No-code data pipelines builder and orchestration platform.	31	0	OSI-approved OSS	4.1k	31	Critical
36	Ploomber The fastest ⚡️ way to build data pipelines. Develop iteratively, deploy anywhere. ☁️	18	0	OSI-approved OSS	3.6k	31	Critical
37	Grouparoo Data synchronization framework	28	0	OSI-approved OSS	775	29	Critical

Evidence Watch

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

Castled

Data synchronization framework focused on external apps

36 confidence