r/ETL
14k members
r/ETL is a subreddit with 14k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses etl, pipeline, data, etl pipeline, and production, and they frequently recommend/review etl tool.
This subreddit is for discussions about ETL / pipelines / workflow systems / etc...
Popular Themes in r/ETL
#1
Advice Requests
: "Top 10 ETL/ELT Tools Ranked by Pricing (2026)"
20 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "anyone looked at fivetran alternatives for heavier workloads?"
15 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I built an open-source Airbyte source for SAP HANA"
5 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "What's the most annoying thing you've dealt with in an ETL pipeline ?"
3 posts
#5
Ideas
: "Need ideas for incremental load validation"
2 posts
#6
Money Talk
: "$10k in cloud credits for startups to run data pipelines"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/ETL
#1
Etl
: ""I've worked with batch Etl long enough that I understand how it behave when something breaks."
18 posts
#2
Pipeline
: "help in building AWS Pipeline (100k records to be processed by an api)"
10 posts
#3
Data
: "After 10 years working with Kafka, I built the Data tool I wanted"
8 posts
#4
Etl Pipeline
: "Advice on Etl Pipeline for large and varied files"
6 posts
#5
Production
: "I have Written my Data Engineering Book which can make you Production Level Data Engineer and it's Free at 0$"
3 posts
#6
Data Pipeline
: "$10k in cloud credits for startups to run Data Pipelines"
3 posts
#7
Etl Pipelines
: "How do you people test business logic in Etl Pipelines?.."
3 posts
#8
Practices
2 posts
#9
Data Lineage
: "Engineering a cross-platform Data Lineage parser using strictly read-only, structure-only metadata APIs"
2 posts
#10
Large Data
: "help in building AWS pipeline (100k records to be processed by an api)"
2 posts
Products Discussed in r/ETL
Etl Tool
62 reviews
#1
Pentaho
4.5★ from 6 reviews
#2
Talend
4.3★ from 4 reviews
#3
Airflow
4.3★ from 3 reviews
Member Growth in r/ETL
Yearly
+4k members(36.7%)
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Last updated: October 13, 2026