I am one of Airbyte's founder. The initial version of was actually fully based on Singer and this is when we realize it wouldn't be possible for us to depend on it.
Amongst the main reasons: Singer seems to have been abandoned by StitchData (after they got acquired by Talend), the quality of the connectors is too unpredictable, Singer connectors are not usable outside the box.
We would have preferred to use an existing standard if one already existed. It was a tough decision for us to create something from scratch but now we are very satisfied with the decision. It is way easier for the community and for us to build connectors that meet quality standards and we can make it MIT so the community can have control on the evolution of the protocol.
Forgot to mention. We have a compatibility layer with Singer so it possible to run Singer Taps in Airbyte. We have a few sources that are actually some of the high quality Singer's.
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I am one of Airbyte's founder. The initial version of was actually fully based on Singer and this is when we realize it wouldn't be possible for us to depend on it.
Amongst the main reasons: Singer seems to have been abandoned by StitchData (after they got acquired by Talend), the quality of the connectors is too unpredictable, Singer connectors are not usable outside the box.
We would have preferred to use an existing standard if one already existed. It was a tough decision for us to create something from scratch but now we are very satisfied with the decision. It is way easier for the community and for us to build connectors that meet quality standards and we can make it MIT so the community can have control on the evolution of the protocol.
We actually wrote a few articles about it:
https://docs.airbyte.io/faq/differences-with.../singer-vs-ai...
https://airbyte.io/articles/data-engineering-thoughts/airbyt...
Forgot to mention. We have a compatibility layer with Singer so it possible to run Singer Taps in Airbyte. We have a few sources that are actually some of the high quality Singer's.