GlassFlow – OSS streaming dedup and joins from Kafka to ClickHouse
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…
GlassFlow – OSS streaming dedup and joins from Kafka to ClickHouse launched on May 11, 2025 with 78 votes, #559 of 7,905 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
GlassFlow is an open-source streaming ETL tool that deduplicates and joins Kafka streams before ingesting them into ClickHouse. It addresses the challenge of handling duplicate records in real-time data pipelines, which commonly occur when data flows from multiple sources like CRMs and clickstream systems. The tool is designed for data engineers and analytics teams building real-time analytics pipelines who need to ensure data quality and accuracy before loading into ClickHouse.
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From the sources
GlassFlow ETL: Open source data ingestion and transformations for ClickHouse pipelines - glassflow/clickhouse-etl
GlassFlow ClickHouse ETL is an open-source project by GlassFlow . Its documentation lives at glassflow-etl.com . Looking for GlassFlow's current product? Visit glassflow.ai . Backfill historical data, keep CDC in sync, handle schema changes, normalize messy data, and keep ClickHouse queries correct. GlassFlow is an open-source stream processing engine designed for data ingestion and transformation from multiple sources into ClickHouse. GlassFlow comes with the following core functionalities: GlassFlow is open source and can be self-hosted on Kubernetes. GlassFlow works with any managed Kubernetes service like AWS EKS, GKE, AKS, and more. For detailed documentation, visit glassflow-etl.com .…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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