# Bruin

Build data pipelines with SQL and Python, ingest data from different sources, add quality checks, and build end-to-end flows.

Repository: https://github.com/bruin-data/bruin
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bruin
Homepage: https://getbruin.com/docs/bruin/
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: analytics, bigquery, data-modeling, data-pipelines, python, snowflake, sql, data-analysis, data-transformation, data-ingestion, data-platform
Last push: 2026-08-26T20:06:03+00:00
Link (homepage): https://getbruin.com/docs/bruin/
Link (site_page): https://getbruin.com/docs/bruin/getting-started/introduction/installation.html
Link (site_page): https://getbruin.com/docs/bruin/getting-started/introduction/quickstart.html
Link (site_page): https://getbruin.com/docs/bruin/core-concepts/overview.html
Link (site_page): https://getbruin.com/docs/bruin/assets/definition-schema.html

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 80
- inputs: {"age_days": 1126, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 632}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1678, forks 87 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:21.042831+00:00)

## What it is
Bruin is an end-to-end data platform whose CLI combines data ingestion (via its ingestr tool), SQL/Python/R transformations, and data quality checks into code-defined pipelines. ingestr itself is a command-line tool that copies data between databases and sources with a single command, supporting incremental loading strategies like append, merge, and delete+insert.

## Use cases
- copy data from postgres to snowflake with one command
- ingest data from 70+ sources into a data warehouse without writing code
- run sql and python transformations as a dependency-ordered pipeline
- add data quality checks like unique and not_null to warehouse tables
- schedule daily data pipelines with cron and get slack alerts on failure
- incrementally load tables with merge or append strategies
- visualize data lineage across pipeline assets
- replace dbt, airbyte, and great expectations with one tool

## When to choose
- you want a single tool covering ingestion, transformation, and quality checks
- you prefer pipelines defined in code (SQL/Python/YAML) in a git repository
- you need simple no-code database-to-database data copying
- you want built-in lineage, scheduling, and concurrency without a separate orchestrator

## When to avoid
- you need a full-featured distributed orchestrator like Airflow for complex workflows
- you only want SQL transformations and already use dbt
- you need streaming/real-time ingestion rather than batch loads
- you require a permissive open-source license and the NOASSERTION license is a concern

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: etl, cli, database, workflow-automation, scheduling, data-science
- domain: databases, analytics, developer-tools, big-data
- platform: cli, cross-platform, windows, go, python
- tags: data-ingestion, data-pipeline, transformation, data-quality, dbt-alternative, airbyte-alternative, incremental-loading, sql-pipelines, lineage, vscode-extension, data-engineering, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- bruin-data/bruin (main) score 91
- bruin-data/ingestr (backend) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:21.042831+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:25:53.180422+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.