Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-source, Python-based dbt alternative

• serra

  2 325 9.2 Python

  Build elegant data pipelines

  

Hey HN! Alan and Albert here, cofounders of Serra. Serra is end-to-end dbt—we make building reliable, scalable ELT/ETL easy by replacing brittle SQL scripts with object-oriented Python. It’s open source: https://github.com/Serra-Technologies/serra, and our docs are here: https://docs.serra.io/documentation/.

I stumbled into this idea as a data engineer for Disney+’s subscriptions team. We were “firefighters for data,” ready to debug huge pipelines that always crashed and burned. The worst part of my job at Disney+ was the graveyard on-call rotations, where pagers from 12am to 5am were guaranteed, and you'd have to dig through thousands of lines of someone else’s SQL.

• apollo-server

  66 13,663 9.1 TypeScript

  🌍  Spec-compliant and production ready JavaScript GraphQL server that lets you develop in a schema-first way. Built for Express, Connect, Hapi, Koa, and more.

  

As I mentioned, their main GraphQL server package is[1], so that's where the confusion came from. Thanks.

[1] https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/blob/9817bc47...

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• sqlmesh

  12 1,249 9.9 Python

  Efficient data transformation and modeling framework that is backwards compatible with dbt.

  

There is also sqlmesh (https://sqlmesh.com/). Pretty new as well. It introduces some interesting concepts. For smaller dbt projects it could be a drop-in replacement as it allows importing dbt projects.

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