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    dbt

    Score9 out of 10
    N/Adbt is an SQL development environment, developed by Fishtown Analytics, now known as dbt Labs. The vendor states that with dbt, analysts take ownership of the entire analytics engineering workflow, from writing data transformation code to deployment and documentation. dbt Core is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, and paid Teams and Enterprise editions are available.

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    dbt
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    dbt
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    dbt
    Considered Both Products
    dbt Labs
    Chose dbt
    dbt is very flexible and can fit into most data pipelines. This is a pro for most organizations that aren't fully bought into one platform (Google Cloud, etc.)
    Incentivized
    Chose dbt
    Matillion is graphical versus dbt, which is SQL code-based (that, of course, is a matter of personal preference and not an objective advantage). The integrated testing, documentation generation, lineage, etc., were additional criteria that led us to choose dbt.
    Incentivized
    Chose dbt
    I actually don't know what the alternative to dbt is. I'm sure one must exist other than more 'roll your own' options like Apache Airflow, say, bu tin terms of super easy managed/cloud data transforms, dbt really does seem to be THE tool to use. It's $50/month per dev, BUT …
    Incentivized
    Chose dbt
    SnapLogic is great at the Extraction and Load processes of ETL. It can pull data from anywhere, even behind firewalls. So if you need to get data from various APIs, databases, files, S3, SFTP, etc it is easy to do so. However, it requires special knowledge in order to build …
    Incentivized
    Chose dbt
    I haven't come across anything like DBT before.
    Incentivized
    Chose dbt
    Most ETL pipeline products have a T layer, but dbt just does it better. The transformation is on steroids compared to the others. Also, just allows much more Adhoc solutions for very specific projects. Those ETL tools are probably better on the T part if you don't need too many …
    Incentivized
    Chose dbt
    Airflow can accomplish the same work as dbt (data build tool), however, dbt's (data build tool) development workflow and UI can open up data transformation and modeling work to non-data engineering teams. Looker might also be able to define data models via LookML with a …
    Incentivized
    Chose dbt
    dbt is great because of its transformation capabilities
    Incentivized
    Chose dbt
    dbt fits much better in our stack, where we're using specialized tools to support our ELT approach.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Features
    dbt
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of dbt
    Feature
    dbt
    9.5
    7 Ratings
    Simple transformations10.07 Ratings
    Complex transformations9.07 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of dbt
    Feature
    dbt
    9.0
    7 Ratings
    Data model creation9.57 Ratings
    Metadata management8.57 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow9.07 Ratings
    Collaboration10.05 Ratings
    Testing and debugging8.07 Ratings
    User Ratings
    dbt
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (2 ratings)