Welcome to Airbyte Docs
What is Airbyte?
Airbyte is an open-source data movement infrastructure for building extract and load (EL) data pipelines. It is designed for versatility, scalability, and ease-of-use.
There are three major components to know in Airbyte:
- The connector catalog
- 350+ pre-built connectors: Airbyte’s connector catalog comes “out-of-the-box” with over 350 pre-built connectors. These connectors can be used to start replicating data from a source to a destination in just a few minutes.
- No-Code Connector Builder: You can easily extend Airbyte’s functionality to support your custom use cases through tools like the No-Code Connector Builder.
- The platform: Airbyte’s platform provides all the horizontal services required to configure and scale data movement operations, available as cloud-managed or self-managed.
- The user interface: Airbyte features a UI, PyAirbyte (Python library), API, and Terraform Provider to integrate with your preferred tooling and approach to infrastructure management.
Airbyte is suitable for a wide range of data integration use cases, including AI data infrastructure and EL(T) workloads. Airbyte is also embeddable within your own application or platform to power your product.
Why an open-source data movement infrastructure?
Today, teams and organizations require efficient and timely data access to an ever-growing list of data sources. In-house data pipelines are brittle and costly to build and maintain. How many times have we been in this situation?
Closed-source solutions are inflexible, and will always often still require complimentary in-house solutions. So at this point, investing in such solutions is just postponing the moment you’ll pile up very costly data pipeline technical debts. Is there a way to have a scalable and efficient data movement infrastructure that will enable your data team to be successful? That’s why we created Airbyte.
Getting Started
There are 4 products to Airbyte:
- Airbyte Open-Source: Check out the Airbyte Open Source QuickStart. Then learn how to deploy and manage Airbyte Open Source in your cloud infrastructure.
- Airbyte Cloud: Cloud is the fastest way to start syncing your data in minutes.
- Airbyte Enterprise: Own your data infrastructure, with advanced features and premium support.
- Powered by Airbyte: White-label Airbyte to offer data integration features for your end users.
Resources
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