Airbyte: the open source data integration (ELT) platform
Discover Airbyte, the open source platform that centralises your data
Airbyte is a data integration (ELT) platform that extracts data from all your applications and loads it into your data warehouse or data lake.
Your customer data lives in the CRM, your payments in Stripe, your traffic in Google Analytics: Airbyte automatically replicates it all into Snowflake, BigQuery or PostgreSQL, where your analysts can finally cross-reference it. Being open source, the platform runs on your own servers or as a managed cloud service, with no vendor lock-in.
Airbyte is built around four functional pillars:
From data extraction to monitoring, each building block covers one stage of the pipeline.
1. Connectors: hundreds of sources and destinations
The connector catalogue is the heart of Airbyte, maintained by the vendor and the community.
- Connect your SaaS applications, databases and APIs in a few clicks
- Load your data into the leading warehouses: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, PostgreSQL
- Rely on a catalogue continuously maintained by the vendor and the open source community
- Add new sources without custom development
- Discover the service here
2. ELT pipelines: reliable, scheduled syncs
Automate your data replication without homegrown scripts to maintain.
- Schedule your syncs at the right frequency for each source
- Choose between full refresh and incremental replication depending on your volumes
- Monitor the status of every pipeline and catch sync failures
- Transform your data downstream with dbt to get it analysis-ready
3. Deployment: self-hosted or cloud, your call
Airbyte's open source nature leaves you in full control of your infrastructure.
- Deploy Airbyte on your own servers to keep your data in-house
- Choose Airbyte Cloud, the managed version, to offload operations
- Scale the platform as your data volumes grow
- Meet your compliance requirements by controlling where your data flows
4. Extensibility: build your own connectors
An internal source or business API missing from the catalogue? Build the connector yourself.
- Create a connector without code using the built-in Connector Builder
- Develop custom connectors with the CDK (Connector Development Kit)
- Adapt existing connectors to the specifics of your systems
- Contribute to the open source catalogue and benefit from community feedback
What about the ecosystem?
Airbyte fits into the modern data stack: it handles ingestion, dbt handles transformation, and your cloud warehouse handles storage. It is the open source alternative to managed solutions like Fivetran, trading a bit of operations work for much more flexibility.
Planning an Airbyte project? turnK designs, deploys and operates your data pipelines end to end. Take a look at our Data & AI services or contact us: our consultants reply within 48 hours.
Les questions les plus fréquentes
Airbyte is an open source data integration (ELT) platform. It extracts data from your applications, databases and APIs through hundreds of connectors, then loads it into a data warehouse or data lake for analysis.
Data teams that want to centralise their data without writing and maintaining extraction scripts. The cloud version suits teams that want to move fast, while the self-hosted version fits organisations that require full control over their data and infrastructure.
A large catalogue of source and destination connectors, scheduled syncs in full refresh or incremental mode, pipeline monitoring, and custom connector creation via the Connector Builder or the CDK.
The self-hosted open source version is free: you only pay for your infrastructure. Airbyte Cloud, the managed version, is billed based on the volume of data synced; up-to-date pricing is available on the official Airbyte website.
Fivetran is a fully managed, turnkey solution, while Airbyte focuses on open source, connector customisation and self-hosting. The right choice depends on your cost, compliance and technical constraints: turnK helps you decide and integrates both platforms.
