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24 alternatives to I built an open-source data copy tool called ingestr

Hi there, Burak here. I built an open-source data copy tool called ingestr (https://github.com/bruin-data/ingestr) I did build quite a few data warehouses both for the companies I worked at, as well as for consultancy projects. One of the more common pain points I observed was that everyone had to rebuild the same data ingestion bit over and over again, and each in different ways: - some wrote code for the ingestion from scratch to various degrees - some used off-the-shelf data ingestion tools like Fivetran / Airbyte I have always disliked both of these approaches,…

Ingestr is an open-source data copy tool designed to simplify moving data between systems. Built to address the repetitive challenge of data ingestion that teams rebuild differently each time, it offers an alternative… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I built an open-source data copy tool called ingestr launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Free data migration process without single line of code

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Gitingest is a open-source micro dev-tool that I made over the last week. It turns any public Github repository into a text extract that you can give to your favourite LLM easily. Today I added this url trick to make it even easier to use! How I use it myself: - Quickly generate a README.md boilerplate for a project - Ask LLMs questions about an undocumented codebase It is still very much work in progress and I plan to add many more options (file size limits, exclude patterns..) and a public API I hope this tool can help you Your feedback is very valuable to help me prioritize And…

    2024 · gitingest.com · its alternatives →

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    Every data pipeline job I had to tackle required quite a few components to set up: - One tool to ingest data - Another one to transform it - If you wanted to run Python, set up an orchestrator - If you need to check the data, a data quality tool Let alone this being hard to set up and taking time, it is also pretty high-maintenance. I had to do a lot of infra work, and while this being billable hours for me I didn’t enjoy the work at all. For some parts of it, there were nice solutions like dbt, but in the end for an end-to-end workflow, it didn’t work. That’s why I decided to build an…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Capalyze▲809

    ChatGPT for datavores: scrape → ask → visualize

    2025 · capalyze.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We’ve built Pretzel, an open-source data exploration and visualization tool that runs fully in the browser and can handle large files (200 MB CSV on my 8gb MacBook air is snappy). It’s also reactive - so if, for example, you change a filter, all the data transform blocks after it re-evaluate automatically. You can try it here: https://pretzelai.github.io/ (static hosted webpage) or see a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73wNEun_L7w You can play with the demo CSV that’s pre-loaded (GitHub data of text-editor adjacent projects) or upload…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Ditch your scraper. Make one API call with any tool.

    Jun 2026 · tabstack.ai · its alternatives →

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    Turn websites into LLM-ready data.

    2024 · datafuel.dev · its alternatives →

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    Airparser▲301

    Data extraction powered by GPT-4

    2023 · airparser.com · its alternatives →

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    I have been working on SQL Explorer, an open source, Django-based reporting and query tool for (gulp!) almost ten years. It's a tool that fits just right for me and many others, and I love and use almost every day. Write SQL, share results, do some analysis, get insight. No surprises. A live demo instance is here (no login or anything required): https://demo.sqlexplorer.io/ And here's a fairly unprofessional, but very enthusiastic, video tour: https://sql-explorer.s3.amazonaws.com/Sql+Explorer+5.mp4 The UI is constrained enough that there's very little to learn,…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Today I’m excited to launch OpenNutrition: a free, ODbL-licenced nutrition database of everyday generic, branded, and restaurant foods, a search engine that can browse the web to import new foods, and a companion app that bundles the database and search as a free macro tracking app. Consistently logging the foods you eat has been shown to support long-term health outcomes (1)(2), but doing so easily depends on having a large, accurate, and up-to-date nutrition database. Free, public databases are often out-of-date, hard to navigate, and missing critical coverage (like branded…

    2025 · opennutrition.app · its alternatives →

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    TableFlow▲306

    Open-source CSV importer, alternative to Flatfile

    2023 · tableflow.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello! For the past year I’ve been working on a fully-managed data warehouse built on Clickhouse. I built this because I was frustrated with how much work was required to run an OLAP database in prod: re-writing my app to do batch inserts, managing clusters and needing to look up special CREATE TABLE syntax every time I made a change. I found pricing for other warehouses confusing (what is a “credit” exactly?) and worried about getting capacity-planning wrong. I was previously building accounting software for firms with millions of transactions. I desperately needed to move from Postgres to…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Public datsets made with https://getomni.ai/. Contribute to getomni-ai/datasets development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey there! This is Dan and Ustin (@uzarubin), and we want to share something cool we've been working on for the past year - an open-source `tail -f` for your data, with a UI. We call it "Streamdal" which is a word salad for streaming systems (because we love them) and DAL or data access layer (because we’re nerds). Here's the repo: https://github.com/streamdal/streamdal Here's the site: https://streamdal.com And here's a live demo: https://demo.streamdal.com (github repo has an explanation of the demo) — — — THE PROBLEM We built this because the…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Ingest▲9

    Data pipelines that build and maintain themselves

    Aug 2026 · ingestdata.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We are Ashish and Armend, founders of GlassFlow. We just launched our open-source streaming ETL that deduplicates and joins Kafka streams before ingesting them to ClickHouse https://github.com/glassflow/clickhouse-etl Why we built this: Dedup with batch data is straightforward. You load the data into a temporary table. Then, find only the latest versions of the record through hashes or keys and keep them. After that, move the clean data into your main table. But have you tried this with streaming data? Users of our prev product were running real-time analytics…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Dear HN, I am Riwaj, the cofounder of dstack.ai (https://github.com/dstackai). A few months ago, we built an online service that allows users to publish data visualizations from Python or R. The idea was to build a tool that did not require additional programming or front-end development for publishing data visualizations. Such a code can be invoked from either Jupyter notebook, RMarkdown, Python, or R scripts. Once the data is pushed, it can be accessed via a browser. Open-sourcing dstack: During our customer discovery phase, we realized that dstack.ai should integrate a lot…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Today we’re excited to introduce OLake (github.com/datazip-inc/olake, 130+ and growing fast), an open-source tool built to help you replicate Database (MongoDB, for now, mysql and postgres under development) data into Data Lakehouse at faster speed without any hassle of managing Debezium or kafka (at least 10x faster than Airbyte and Fivetran at fraction of the cost, refer docs for benchmarks - https://olake.io/docs/connectors/mongodb/benchmarks). You might think “we don't need yet another ETL tool”, true but we tried existing tools (proprietary…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Secure Vault for Customer PII/PHI/PCI/KYC Records. Contribute to securitybunker/databunker development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Effective, agile & flexible etl tool for publishers

    2024 · databeat.io · its alternatives →

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    Gleb, Alex, Erez and Simon here – we are building an open-source tool for comparing data within and across databases at any scale. The repo is at https://github.com/datafold/data-diff, and our home page is https://datafold.com/. As a company, Datafold builds tools for data engineers to automate the most tedious and error-prone tasks falling through the cracks of the modern data stack, such as data testing and lineage. We launched two years ago with a tool for regression-testing changes to ETL code…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I'm Adithya, a 20-year-old dev from India. I have been working with GenAI for the past year, and I've found it really painful to deal with the many different forms of data out there and get the best representation of it for my AI applications. That's why I built OmniParse—an open-source platform designed to handle any unstructured data and transform it into optimized, structured representations. Key Features: - Completely local processing—no external APIs - Supports ~20 file types - Converts documents, multimedia, and web pages to high-quality structured markdown - Table extraction,…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The smartest way to replicate data into your warehouse

    2015 · fivetran.com · its alternatives →

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