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steampipe vs olake
steampipe has 7,957 GitHub stars, 341 forks, 17 open issues and last shipped 3 days ago. olake has 1,453 stars, 252 forks, 178 open issues and last shipped yesterday. steampipe leads on adoption by 448% (7,957 vs 1,453 stars). steampipe is written in Go under AGPL-3.0; olake is written in Go under Apache-2.0. steampipe has attracted 4% as many forks as stars, olake 17%. olake was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (hacktoberfest), 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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| steampipe | olake | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 8.0K | ★ 1.5K |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Go | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 341 | ⑂ 252 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick steampipe if
- You weight community size — 8.0K stars and counting
- You want the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick olake if
- You want the olake feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and olake fits your workflow better
About steampipe
Steampipe is an AGPL 3.0, Go based zero ETL tool that maps APIs and services to SQL tables, letting anyone who already writes SQL — cloud engineers, DevSecOps and security teams, data engineers — query live data from AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub and Kubernetes without building a pipeline or running a database.
read the full steampipe overview →
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.
read the full olake overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is steampipe or olake more popular?
steampipe has 7,957 GitHub stars and olake has 1,453. steampipe has the larger community by that measure.
Are steampipe and olake free?
Both are open source. steampipe is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and olake under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between steampipe and olake?
steampipe is written in Go and olake in Go. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, steampipe or olake?
Choose steampipe if you want the larger community (7,957 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose olake if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.