aid: databand
name: Databand
description: >-
  DBND (Databand) is an open-source Python framework — a library, a set of APIs,
  and a CLI — for building, tracking, and observing data pipelines across data
  ingestion, preparation, ETL/ELT, and machine-learning workflows. It collects
  pipeline metadata (runs, metrics, dataframes, schemas) to give data-engineering
  teams a system of record for runs and to detect pipeline failures and data
  quality issues before they hit downstream consumers. The DBND SDK integrates
  with Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Databricks, dbt, and IBM DataStage. Databand
  was acquired by IBM in 2022 and is now IBM Databand, part of IBM's data
  observability offering; the open-source DBND SDK remains published on PyPI and
  GitHub under the databand-ai organization.
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x-backed-by:
- accel
- bessemer-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-acquired-by: IBM (2022)
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
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  source: []
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise
- Data Observability
- Data Engineering
- Data Pipelines
- Data Quality
- DataOps
- Machine Learning
- Open Source
- SDK
- CLI
- IBM
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://databand.ai/
- type: Homepage
  url: https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-data-integration/data-observability
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/dobd
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/dobd
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://dbnd.readme.io/
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  url: https://github.com/databand-ai
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/databand-ai/dbnd
- type: Support
  url: mailto:contact@databand.ai
- type: Packages
  url: packages/databand-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/databand-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/databand-cli.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/databand-changelog.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/databand-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/databand-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
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