r/dataengineering is a subreddit with 477k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses looking for, data engineering, tool, ai, and looking for a job, and they frequently recommend/review etl tool, bi tool, and automation tools.
News & discussion on Data Engineering topics, including but not limited to: data pipelines, databases, data formats, storage, data modeling, data governance, cleansing, NoSQL, distributed systems, streaming, batch, Big Data, and workflow engines.
Popular Themes in r/dataengineering
#1
Solution Requests
: "Any other alternatives?"
3 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "How to get into AI governance?"
2 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Anyone else sick of being the one who has to give in?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/dataengineering
#1
Looking For
43 posts
#2
Data Engineering
25 posts
#3
Tool
11 posts
#4
Ai
: "Personal Opinion about Ai Taking Over Data Engineering Roles and Impact on New Devs Entering The Market"
4 posts
#5
Looking For A Job
3 posts
#6
Online Course
2 posts
#7
Roadmap
2 posts
#8
Looking For A Data Engineering Cohort
2 posts
#9
Looking For A
2 posts
#10
Data
2 posts
Products Discussed in r/dataengineering
Etl Tool
282 reviews
#1
Fivetran
3.9★ from 20 reviews
#2
Airbyte
4.1★ from 16 reviews
#3
Talend
3.3★ from 15 reviews
Bi Tool
12 reviews
#1
Tableau
4.5★ from 4 reviews
#2
Microsoft
4.0★ from 3 reviews
#3
Looker Studio
4.0★ from 1 review
Automation Tools
9 reviews
#1
Power Automate
1.5★ from 2 reviews
#2
Airbyte
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
Telescope AI
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/dataengineering
#1
Discussion
: "extracting data from on-prem databases (sql server, oracle, postgres) to cloud, which options you guys recommend?"
14 posts
#2
Career
: "AI is really freaking me out"
9 posts
#3
Help
: "Best practice to structure this data model?"
6 posts
#4
Blog
: "Apache Kafka vs Apache Iggy: A Technical Comparison"
3 posts
#5
Personal Project Showcase
: "unfckr.app - Free, fully-featured, zero server delimited data workbench. 100% offline and private. Convert any delimited dataset to any other, clean up columns with repeateable steps. Flatten nested json with one click"
3 posts
#6
Rant
: "Anyone else sick of being the one who has to give in?"
1 post
#7
Open Source
: "Beyond the Dag - a data engineering hackathon"
1 post
Member Growth in r/dataengineering
Yearly
+81k members(20.6%)
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Last updated: September 7, 2026