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OLake - Fastest Databases, Kafka & S3 Replication to Apache Iceberg with Table optimization (Called OLake Fusion). ⚡ Efficient, quick and scalable data ingestion for real-time analytics. Supported sources : Postgres, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, MSSql, DB2, Kafka, S3.. Read more below about its uses, features, and usage.

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OLake Go

OLake Go is a high-performance, open-source data ingestion engine for replicating databases, S3, and Kafka into Apache Iceberg (or plain Parquet).
Built for scalable, real-time pipelines, OLake Go provides a simple web UI and CLI - used to ingest into vendor-lock-in free Iceberg tables supporting all the query-engines/warehouses.

Read the docs and benchmarks at olake.io/docs. Join our active community on Slack.

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[!NOTE] 🎉 OLake Fusion is now live! — Automate your Apache Iceberg Table Maintenance. Check it out here → github.com/datazip-inc/olake-fusion 🎉

OLake Go — Super-fast Sync to Apache Iceberg

OLake Go supports replication from transactional databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, DB2, and MSSQL, event-streaming systems like Apache Kafka and Object-store like S3, into open data lakehouse formats such as Apache Iceberg or Plain Parquet — delivering blazing-fast performance with minimal infrastructure cost.

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🚀 Why OLake Go?

  • 🧠 Smart sync: Full + CDC replication with automatic schema discovery & schema evolution
  • High throughput: 580K RPS (Postgres) & 338K RPS (MySQL)
  • ➡️ Exactly once delivery & Arrow writes: Accuracy with speed.
  • 💾 Iceberg-native: Supports Glue, Hive, JDBC, REST catalogs
  • 🖥️ Self-serve UI: Deploy via Docker Compose and sync in minutes
  • 💸 Infra-light: No Spark, no Flink, no Kafka, no Debezium

📊 Benchmarks

Full Load

Source → Destination Full Load Relative Performance (Full Load) Full Report
Postgres → Iceberg
<span className='text-xs text-slate-500'>(as of 30th Jan 2026)
5,80,113 RPS 12.5× faster than Fivetran Full Report
MySQL → Iceberg
<span className='text-xs text-slate-500'>(as of 30th May 2026)
1,39,773 RPS 1.91× faster than Fivetran Full Report
MongoDB → Iceberg
<span className='text-xs text-slate-500'>(as of 5th Feb 2026)
37,879 RPS - Full Report
Oracle → Iceberg
<span className='text-xs text-slate-500'>(as of 30th Jan 2026)
5,26,337 RPS - Full Report
Kafka → Iceberg
<span className='text-xs text-slate-500'>(as of 27th Feb 2026)
2,09,065 MPS (Bounded Incremental) 1.23x slower than Flink Full Report
MSSQL → Iceberg
<span className='text-xs text-slate-500'>(as of 09th June 2026)
3,45,866 MPS 4.32x faster than Fivetran Full Report

CDC

Source → Destination CDC Relative Performance (CDC) Full Report
Postgres → Iceberg
<span className='text-xs text-slate-500'>(as of 30th Jan 2026)
55,555 RPS 2× faster than Fivetran Full Report
MySQL → Iceberg
<span className='text-xs text-slate-500'>(as of 30th May 2026)
59,951 RPS 1.52× faster than Fivetran Full Report
MongoDB → Iceberg
<span className='text-xs text-slate-500'>(as of 5th Feb 2026)
10,692 RPS - Full Report

🔧 Supported Sources and Destinations

Sources (Databases)

Source Full Load CDC Incremental Notes Documentation
PostgreSQL pgoutput wal2json deprecated Postgres Docs
MySQL Binlog-based CDC MySQL Docs
MongoDB Oplog-based CDC MongoDB Docs
Oracle WIP JDBC based Full Load & Incremental Oracle Docs
DB2 - JDBC based Full Load & Incremental DB2 Docs
MSSQL Full Load, CDC & Incremental MSSQL Docs

Source (S3)

Source Full Load CDC Incremental Notes Documentation
S3 - Ingests from Amazon S3 or S3-compatible (MinIO, LocalStack) S3 Docs

Source (Kafka)

Source Bounded Incremental Notes Documentation
Kafka Latest offset bounded incremental sync Kafka Docs

Destinations

Destination Format Supported Catalogs
Iceberg Glue, Hive, JDBC, REST (Nessie, Polaris, Unity, Lakekeeper, AWS S3 tables)
Parquet Filesystem

Writer Docs

  1. Apache Iceberg Docs

    1. Catalogs
      1. AWS Glue Catalog
      2. REST Catalog
        • Generic
        • Lakekeeper
        • Nessie
        • S3 Tables
        • Unity
        • Apache Polaris
      3. JDBC Catalog
      4. Hive Catalog
    2. Azure ADLS Gen2
    3. Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
    4. MinIO (local)
  2. Parquet Writer

    1. AWS S3 Docs
    2. Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
    3. Local FileSystem Docs

🧪 Quickstart (UI + Docker)

OLake UI is a web-based interface for managing OLake Go jobs, sources, destinations and configurations. You can run the entire OLake Go stack (UI, Backend, and all dependencies) using Docker Compose. This is the recommended way to get started. Run the UI, connect your source DB, and start syncing in minutes.

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datazip-inc/olake-ui/master/docker-compose.yml | docker compose -f - up -d

Access the UI:

Detailed getting started using OLake UI can be found here.

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Creating Your First Job

With the UI running, you can create a data pipeline in a few steps:

  1. Configure Source: Navigate to Source tab and click Create Source. Set up your source connection.
  2. Configure Destination: Navigate to Destination tab and click Create Destination. Set up your destination.
  3. Create a Job: Navigate to the Jobs tab and click Create Job.
  4. Configure & Run: Give your job a name, set a schedule, select your source and destination and click Next to finish.
  5. Select Streams: Choose which tables to sync and configure their sync mode (CDC, Full Refresh or Incremental).

For a detailed walkthrough, refer to the Jobs documentation.


🛠️ CLI Usage (Advanced)

For advanced users and automation, OLake Go's core logic is exposed via a powerful CLI. The core framework handles state management, configuration validation, logging, and type detection. It interacts with drivers using four main commands:

  • spec: Returns a render-able JSON Schema for a connector's configuration.
  • check: Validates connection configurations for sources and destinations.
  • discover: Returns all available streams (e.g., tables) and their schemas from a source.
  • sync: Executes the data replication job, extracting from the source and writing to the destination.
  • clear-destination : Clears data in the destination, only for the selected streams defined in streams.json.

Find out more about CLI here.


Install OLake Go

Below are other different ways you can run OLake Go:

  1. OLake Go UI (Recommended)
  2. Kubernetes using Helm
  3. Standalone Docker container
  4. Airflow on EC2
  5. Airflow on Kubernetes

Playground

  1. OLake Go + Apache Iceberg + REST Catalog + Presto
  2. OLake Go + Apache Iceberg + AWS Glue + Trino
  3. OLake Go + Apache Iceberg + AWS Glue + Athena
  4. OLake Go + Apache Iceberg + AWS Glue + Snowflake
  5. OLake Go + Apache Iceberg + REST Catalog + Spark

🌍 Use Cases

  • ✅ Migrate from OLTP to Iceberg without Spark or Flink
  • ✅ Enable BI over fresh CDC data using Athena, StarRocks, Trino, Presto, Dremio, Databricks, Snowflake and more!
  • ✅ Build near real-time data lake-house on cost-efficient cloud object stores
  • ✅ Move away from vendor-lock-in warehouse or tools with open data lake-house
  • ✅ Single copy for both analytics & machine learning

🧭 Roadmap Highlights

  • Oracle Full Load Support
  • Oracle Incremental
  • Filters for Full Load and Incremental
  • Interoperability (Coming Soon)
  • Iceberg V3 Support

🤝 Contributing

We ❤️ contributions, big or small!

Check out our Bounty Program. A huge thanks to all our amazing contributors!

Releases

Aug 21, 2026

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What's Changed

fix: auto selected cursor field by @vikaxsh in #1108 chore(deps): bump software.amazon.awssdk:bom from 2.49.6 to 2.51.3 in /destination/iceberg/olake-iceberg-java-writer by @dependabo...

Aug 19, 2026

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What's Changed

chore: bump go version 1.25.12 -> 1.25.13 by @mihir-datazip in #1115 fix(mysql): correct unsigned mediumint values over CDC by @mihir-datazip in #1074 ci: skip documentation check for...

Aug 13, 2026

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What's Changed

feat(tests): run integration tests against the real driver docker images by @mihir-datazip in #1037 chore(s3-driver): abstract out aws to generic s3 object store by @mihir-datazip in #...

Aug 11, 2026

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feat: emit bytes read stats in telemetry by @vaibhav-datazip in #1047 refactor: de-couple Integration Test module from codebase by @mihir-datazip in #1033 feat(iceberg): add gcp_projec...

Jul 24, 2026

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What's Changed

feat: log OLake version on startup by @sahitya-datazip in #1030 chore: docker optimizations for integration tests by @mihir-datazip in #1024 feat(iceberg): upgrade Apache Iceberg from...