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The leading workflow orchestration platform for data pipelines. Airflow lets you define, schedule, and monitor complex DAG-based pipelines in Python. The standard for data engineers and ML pipeline orchestration.

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Trust Score 52 · Caution
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The leading data transformation tool for analytics engineers. dbt lets you write SQL SELECT statements and handles materialization, testing, documentation, and lineage. It transformed how data teams work.

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