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arbalest
========

`Arbalest`_ **is a Python data pipeline orchestration library for** `Amazon S3`_
**and** `Amazon Redshift`_.
**It takes care of the heavy lifting of making data queryable at scale in AWS.**

.. _Arbalest: https://github.com/Dwolla/arbalest
.. _Amazon S3: https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/s3
.. _Amazon Redshift: https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/redshift

It takes care of:

* Ingesting data into Amazon Redshift
* Schema creation and validation
* Creating highly available and scalable data import strategies
* Generating and uploading prerequisite artifacts for import
* Running data import jobs
* Orchestrating idempotent and fault tolerant multi-step ETL pipelines with SQL

Getting started is easy with ``pip``::

   pip install arbalest

Arbalest is licensed under the `MIT License`_.

.. _MIT License: https://github.com/Dwolla/arbalest/raw/master/LICENSE

Contents:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3

   rationale.rst
   getting-started.rst
   author.rst



Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`