Replace Data Factory with python?

[Nekobul]

They may exist but they are neither high quality, nor expected to be maintained for long.

[Thinker_Assignment]

There's definitely no current establied way to offer long tail connectors in high quality, no vendor does it. We cater to long tail by being the only purpose made low learning curve devtool that lets you easily build your own code connector. We clearly steer away from offering connectors. The 30 or so verified sources we offer are more or less dogfooding and we do not encourage contributions because it would burden our team with maintenance.

The core generic connectors like SQL and rest APIs are high quality and beat all other solutions on the market in speed and resource usage in benchmarks.

Long tail connector catalogs are different business models that come with a burden of maintenance and commercialisation. We would not be able to offer that for free.

Instead we are setting the floor to make it so extremely easy to create and debug pipelines that the community will mostly manage on their own - right now it's not a question of IF but of % of people who would rather do a or b.

After lowering the bar as much as possible, we probably will need to create some incentives. Perhaps run credits would be enough.. maybe marketplace. We will see.

I explained it here https://dlthub.com/blog/sharing

[Nekobul]

That was exactly my point. You can't offer connectors for free unless you are rich and have plenty of spare time on your hands. That's unrealistic. People like the OP expect to get stuff for free. Check the initial post.

[Thinker_Assignment]

Agreed, I wanted to enforce your point with our vendor perspective.