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olake vs beginner_de_project
olake has 1,453 GitHub stars, 252 forks, 178 open issues and last shipped yesterday. beginner_de_project has 594 stars, 205 forks, 9 open issues and last shipped 5 months ago. olake leads on adoption by 145% (1,453 vs 594 stars). olake is written in Go under Apache-2.0; beginner_de_project is written in HTML under MIT. olake has attracted 17% as many forks as stars, beginner_de_project 35%. olake was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (database), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| olake | beginner_de_project | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 1.5K | ★ 594 |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Written in | Go | HTML |
| Last push | 2026-09-19 | 2026-04-13 |
| Forks | ⑂ 252 | ⑂ 205 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick olake if
- You weight community size — 1.5K stars and counting
- You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick beginner_de_project if
- You want the beginner_de_project feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches HTML
- You evaluated both and beginner_de_project fits your workflow better
About olake
OLake Go is an open source data ingestion engine written in Go and licensed under Apache 2.0. It replicates transactional databases, Apache Kafka, and S3 into Apache Iceberg or plain Parquet, and it provides a web UI and a command line interface for building scalable, real time pipelines. The project sits in the Apache Iceberg and lakehouse ecosystem, where its stated goal is to move data into vendor neutral table formats that can be read by query engines and warehouses.
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About beginner_de_project
Beginner DE Project Batch Edition is an MIT licensed teaching repository that stands up a complete batch data pipeline — Airflow orchestration, Postgres, DuckDB warehouse, Apache Spark, and MinIO storage — so that new data engineers can run a real end to end ETL workflow on a laptop or in a GitHub codespace.
read the full beginner_de_project overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is olake or beginner_de_project more popular?
olake has 1,453 GitHub stars and beginner_de_project has 594. olake has the larger community by that measure.
Are olake and beginner_de_project free?
Both are open source. olake is licensed under Apache-2.0 and beginner_de_project under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between olake and beginner_de_project?
olake is written in Go and beginner_de_project in HTML. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, olake or beginner_de_project?
Choose olake if you want the larger community (1,453 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose beginner_de_project if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.