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#1

Rudder Server

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 100

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

4.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoData Pipeline
$ npx skills add rudderlabs/rudder-server
#2

Airflow

Similarity 122Trust 98Excellent 100

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

46K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonETL
$ npx skills add apache/airflow
#3

Multiwoven

Similarity 122Trust 92Excellent 100

🔥🔥🔥 Open source Reverse ETL - alternative to hightouch and census.

1.7K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdata-analysisRubyData Pipeline
$ npx skills add Multiwoven/multiwoven
#4

Practical Data Engineering

Similarity 121Trust 79Strong 71

Practical Data Engineering: A Hands-On Real-Estate Project Guide

804 starsMar 10, 2026 pushdata-analysisJupyter NotebookData Pipeline
$ npx skills add ssp-data/practical-data-engineering
#5

Memphis

Similarity 121Trust 85Excellent 92

Memphis.dev is a highly scalable and effortless data streaming platform

3.4K starsMar 2, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoData Pipeline
$ npx skills add superstreamlabs/memphis
#6

Debezium

Similarity 118Trust 96Excellent 100

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

13K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaData Pipeline
$ npx skills add debezium/debezium
#7

Flink Cdc

Similarity 117Trust 94Excellent 100

Flink CDC is a streaming data integration tool

6.4K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaData Pipeline
$ npx skills add apache/flink-cdc
#8

Conduit

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 85

Conduit streams data between data stores. Kafka Connect replacement. No JVM required.

600 starsJun 13, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoData Pipeline
$ npx skills add ConduitIO/conduit
#9

Snowplow

Similarity 117Trust 92Excellent 100

The leader in Customer Data Infrastructure

7.0K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdata-analysisScalaData Pipeline
$ npx skills add snowplow/snowplow
#10

Flow

Similarity 116Trust 84Strong 82

🌊 Continuously synchronize the systems where your data lives, to the systems where you _want_ it to live, by managing your data flows with Estuary. 🌊

936 starsJun 12, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustData Pipeline
$ npx skills add estuary/flow
#11

Seatunnel Web

Similarity 116Trust 87Strong 84

Modern SeaTunnel Web UI with visual DAG pipelines, batch & streaming sync, connector management, built-in metrics, and runtime logs.

505 starsJun 14, 2026 pushdata-analysisTypeScriptData Pipeline
$ npx skills add weifuwan/seatunnel-web
#12

DataEngineeringProject

Similarity 115Trust 84Strong 72

Example end to end data engineering project.

1.4K starsDec 8, 2022 pushdata-analysisPythonData Pipeline
$ npx skills add damklis/DataEngineeringProject
#13

Ingestr

Similarity 114Trust 85Excellent 100

ingestr is a CLI tool to copy data between any databases with a single command seamlessly.

3.7K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoData Pipeline
$ npx skills add bruin-data/ingestr
#14

Olake

Similarity 114Trust 93Excellent 100

OLake - Fastest Databases, Kafka & S3 Replication to Apache Iceberg with Table optimization (Called OLake Fusion). ⚡ Efficient, quick and scalable data ingestion for real-time analytics. Supported sources : Postgres, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, MSSql, DB2, Kafka, S3.

1.4K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoData Pipeline
$ npx skills add datazip-inc/olake
#15

Go Streams

Similarity 113Trust 89Excellent 95

A lightweight stream processing library for Go

2.2K starsJan 14, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoData Pipeline
$ npx skills add reugn/go-streams
#16

Efficient Data Processing Spark

Similarity 113Trust 79Strong 78

Code for "Efficient Data Processing in Spark" Course

385 starsMay 25, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonData Pipeline
$ npx skills add josephmachado/efficient_data_processing_spark

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