r/ETL

12k members
r/ETL is a subreddit with 12k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and self-promotion, and the community frequently discusses etl, pipeline, data, snowflake, and clickhouse, 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
: "Looking for ETL feedback on an open-source pipeline I built for my PhD research (GDELT -> Parquet)"
10 posts
#2
Self-Promotion
: "I built a visual ETL tool where the canvas is the same thing as the code you would write"
6 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Honestly, what are the real Airflow alternatives in 2026? Not the 2023 blog post answers"
2 posts
#4
Ideas
: "Am I overengineering my thesis project? Real-time flight tracking pipeline"
2 posts

Popular Topics in r/ETL

#1

Etl

: "Building a Production-Grade Streaming Etl Platform with Kafka, ClickHouse, and Python"
23 posts
#2

Pipeline

: "Tutorial | real-time fraud detection Pipeline: Kafka ingest, stream dedup + filtering, ClickHouse analytics"
6 posts
#3

Data

: "Streamlit as a way of standardizing Data Registry for Lab Data via Snowflake?"
6 posts
#4

Snowflake

5 posts
#5

Clickhouse

: "Building a Production-Grade Streaming ETL Platform with Kafka, Clickhouse, and Python"
5 posts
#6

Data Analytics

: "Built an Amazon Data Analytics project using Python"
4 posts
#7

Data Engineering

: "Snowflake and the Data Engineering stack - New article!"
3 posts
#8

Duckdb

: "Duckle and Duckdb ecosystem just got stronger!"
3 posts
#9

Python

: "Building a Production-Grade Streaming ETL Platform with Kafka, ClickHouse, and Python"
3 posts
#10

Duckle

: "Duckle is now on PyPI 🚀 pip install Duckle"
3 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
+3k members(28.6%)

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Last updated: August 11, 2026