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DataCleaner

The premier open source Data Quality solution

From datacleaner·Updated June 14, 2026·View on GitHub·

DataCleaner is a Data Quality toolkit that allows you to profile, correct and enrich your data. People use it for ad-hoc analysis, recurring cleansing as well as a swiss-army knife in matching and Master Data Management solutions. The project is written primarily in Java, distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2014. Key topics include: data, data-analysis, data-science, database, datacleaner.

Latest release: DataCleaner-5.9.05.9.0
November 16, 2024View Changelog →

DataCleaner

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The premier Open Source Data Quality solution.

DataCleaner is a Data Quality toolkit that allows you to profile, correct and enrich your data. People use it for ad-hoc analysis, recurring cleansing as well as a swiss-army knife in matching and Master Data Management solutions.

Project status

The project is maintained, but is not being actively developed:

  • We ensure that DataCleaner runs on modern versions of Java on major operating systems.
  • We take security bugs serious and try to keep dependencies up to date whenever there are vulnerabilities detected.
  • We are open for bug reports, contributions and discussions.
  • New features are driven by pull requests.

The current maintainer of the project is @kaspersorensen.

Where to go for end-user information?

Please visit the DataCleaner community website https://datacleaner.github.io for downloads, news, documentation etc.

Visit our Gitter chat channel https://gitter.im/datacleaner/community for asking questions or discussions.

GitHub markdown pages and issues are used for developers and technical aspects only.

Module structure

The main application modules are:

  • api - The public API of DataCleaner. Mostly interfaces and annotations that you should use to build your own extensions.
  • resources - Static resources in DataCleaner
  • oss-branding - Icons and colors
  • testware - Useful classes for unit testing of DataCleaner and extension code.
  • engine
    • core - The core engine piece which allows execution of jobs and components as per the API.
    • xml-config - Contains utilities for reading and writing job files and configuration files of DataCleaner.
    • env - Different/alternative environments that DataCleaner can run in, for instance Apache Spark or webapp-cluster
  • components
    • ... - many sub modules containing built-in as well as additional components/extensions to use with DataCleaner.
    • standard-components - a container-project that dependends on all components that are normally bundled in DataCleaner community edition.
  • desktop
    • api - The public API for the DataCleaner desktop application.
    • ui - The Swing-based user interface for desktop users
  • monitor
    • api - the API classes and interfaces of DataCleaner monitor

Code style and formatting

In the root of the project you can find 'Formatter-[IDE].xml' files which enable you to import the code formatting rules of the project into your IDE.

License

Licensed under the Lesser General Public License, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt

Contributors

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This article is auto-generated from datacleaner/DataCleaner via the GitHub API.Last fetched: 6/23/2026