Any major drawbacks of using self-hosted Airbyte?

I plan on self-hosting Airbyte to run 100s of pipelines. So far, I have installed it using abctl (kind setup) on a remote machine and have tested several connectors I need (postgres, hubspot, google sheets, s3 etc). Everything seems to be working fine. And I love the fact that there is an API to s

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Airbyte OSS is driving me insane

I’m trying to build an ELT pipeline to sync data from Postgres RDS to BigQuery. I didn’t know it Airbyte would be this resource intensive especially for the job I’m trying to setup (sync tables with thousands of rows etc.). I had Airbyte working on our RKE2 Cluster, but it kept failing due to not en

Airbyte vs Fivetran for our ELT stack? Any other alternatives?

Hey, I’m stuck picking between Airbyte and Fivetran for our ELT stack and could use some advice. Sources we're dealing with: Salesforce (the usual - Accounts, Contacts, Opps) HubSpot (Contacts, Deals) Postgres OLTP that's pushing ~350k rows/day across several transactional tables We’ve got a tigh

How can be Fivetran so much faster than Airbyte?

We have been ingesting data from Hubspot into BigQuery. We have been using Fivetran and Airbyte. While fivetran ingests 4M rows in under 2 hours, we needed to stop some tables from syncing because they were too big and it was crushing our Airbyte (OOS deployed on K8S). It took Airbyte 2 hours to syn