OpenDataSuite (ODS)

A Rust-first, provider-neutral control plane for analytics engineering. It starts with dbt and Databricks, and every decision it makes can be explained.

Status: very experimental, pre-alpha. There is no release yet: the first, v0.0.1, is the State MVP with the first dashboard screens. ods state, the ods serve dashboard, column-level lineage, ERDs and an MCP server work as previews; everything may change.

Documentation: https://buchochelliq-labs.github.io/open-data-suite/ (built from docs/ with MkDocs: pip install -r requirements-docs.txt && mkdocs serve).

Install: from v0.0.1, pip install opendatasuite puts ods on your PATH next to dbt. cargo binstall, direct downloads and Homebrew (coming soon): docs/install.md. Until then, build from source: cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/buchochelliq-labs/open-data-suite ods-cli.

ods state build runs dbt build on only what changed (code, or upstream data), shows each node's result as it finishes, and explains why each one ran:

ods serve is a read-only dashboard of the project and its state: the plan, the runs with each node's stats, lineage coloured by what the next run does, and the catalog.

cd my-dbt-project
ods doctor                       # can ODS work here?
ods state plan                   # what would build, what would be reused, and why
ods state build                  # dbt build, on only what needs it; records the run
ods state explain customers      # why a node builds, traced to the root cause
ods state history --run <run_id> # one run's per-node stats, from its journal
ods state retry --failed         # build only what failed, or was skipped because of it
ods serve                        # the dashboard, on http://127.0.0.1:8765/

These recordings are the real ods on the demo project in fixtures/, with a fake dbt; docs/recordings.md says how they're made and checked.

Releases stay v0.0.x until the whole dashboard design is built; v0.1.0 marks the complete dashboard.

• Roadmap, milestones, and releases: docs/ROADMAP.md
• Command reference: docs/cli.md
• Contributor and AI-agent guide: AGENTS.md
• Architecture decisions: docs/adr/

Licence

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.