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Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
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Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://github.com/debezium/dbz/issues.
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Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
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Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
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10 Weeks, 20 Lessons, Data Science for All!
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$ npx skills add microsoft/Data-Science-For-Beginners#10
An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
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Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada:
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Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG.
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Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
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DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system
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CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
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A query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB, SQL Server, SQLite3 and Oracle, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
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