Migration Guides
Practical, opinionated guides for switching data pipeline platforms.
Each guide covers the full migration path: inventory, mapping, deployment, validation, and cutover — with gotchas surfaced from real migration post-mortems and practitioner threads.
Apache Airflow → Dagster
Migrating from Apache Airflow to Dagster represents a strategic shift toward a modern, asset-oriented data orchestration…
Apache Airflow → Prefect
Migrating from Apache Airflow to Prefect is a move to a more developer-friendly, Python-native orchestration platform. W…
Hevo → Airbyte
Migrating from Hevo to Airbyte is a move from a SaaS ELT platform focused on ease-of-setup to a flexible, open-source al…
Informatica → Airbyte
Migrating from Informatica to Airbyte is a move from an enterprise-grade, licensed platform to an open-source, cloud-nat…
Informatica → Fivetran
Migrating from Informatica to Fivetran represents a shift from a powerful but complex enterprise platform to a simpler, …
Matillion → Fivetran
Migrating from Matillion to Fivetran means moving from a visual, warehouse-centric ETL platform to a simple, fully manag…
Stitch → Airbyte
Migrating from Stitch to Airbyte means moving from a proprietary cloud ELT platform to an open-source alternative. Both …
Stitch → Fivetran
Migrating from Stitch to Fivetran represents a shift from a low-cost, straightforward ELT platform to a fully managed, p…
Talend → Airbyte
Migrating from Talend to Airbyte is a move from an enterprise design-centric ETL platform to a flexible, open-source ELT…
Talend → Fivetran
Migrating from Talend to Fivetran is a transition from a comprehensive, design-centric data integration platform to a si…
About these guides
Migration effort estimates and gotchas are drawn from practitioner experience shared on Reddit, Hacker News, and vendor community forums. They are not vendor-provided. About datapipelines.com.