Datanymizer

What do you like best?

Datanymizer does all of these things: you define a configuration which specifies what to do (and not do), and it then dumps data directly from your database, applying the rules that you define, and it even integrates the Tera templating engine to enable complex values to be synthesized.

The output is an anonymized SQL dump, written either to a file or directly to standard output, ready to be imported into a database using your normal tools.

What do you dislike?

There is nothing I can think of. Datanymizer would be very helpful on any type of project.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

It removes the intermediate stage of data duplication, reducing the likelihood of data leakage. We deliberately chose the Rust development language and it was a great choice. Combining the power of the development language with the unique capabilities of template engines, which are not available in many similar projects, we managed to create an interesting and useful product.