nessie VS OpenRefine

Nessie is an innovative open-source catalog that extends beyond the traditional catalog capabilities in the Apache Iceberg ecosystem, introducing git-like features to data management. This catalog not only tracks table metadata but also allows users to capture commits at a holistic level, enabling advanced operations such as multi-table transactions, rollbacks, branching, and tagging. These features provide a new layer of flexibility and control over data changes, resembling version control systems in software development.

Try Nessie https://github.com/projectnessie/nessie - it recently got trino support as well ..

Project Nessie (https://projectnessie.org/) will be the catalog that eventually decouples Iceberg from Hive. At that point, I think it will be a no brainer to go Iceberg over Delta.

The Dremio Sonar query engine can query your data where it exists whether it's AWS Glue, S3, Nessie Catalogs, MySQL, Postgres, RedShift and an ever growing list of sources.

We will also need a catalog to track all of these tables, with the open source Project Nessie we can do just that, and also get great versioning features similar to using Git when developing applications allowing data engineers to practice "data as code" and "write-audit-publish" patterns on their data.

"OpenRefine is a powerful free, open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data." https://openrefine.org/

Yes, let's hope! The strategy has worked out sometimes - Google shut down 'Google Refine' 10 years ago, it got turned into 'Open Refine', last update 2 months ago. https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine

It's a hugely useful tool if you're working with messy Excel-scale data, i.e., most biologists or social scientists.

It seems to be pure JS with jQuery: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/blob/master/main/we...

EDIT: trim() does not remove unicode 0x200b (unicode character for zero width space). https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/5105 is worth a read.

There were six homework assignments. In order they were Regular Expressions, OpenRefine, Datalog, SQL, Provenance, and Python. None of these assignments took more than two to three hours to complete. They all were basic implementation and programming assignments with autograders.

Open Refine will get you about 70% there. It's FOSS

I’ve heard good things about https://openrefine.org/

It's not suited to SQL, use Open Refine or python fuzzywuzzy.