dbt vs. Layer2 Cloud Connector

dbt

Layer2 Cloud Connector

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
dbt	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	dbt 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.	N/A
Layer2 Cloud Connector	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	The Layer2 Cloud Connector can integrate data and sync documents between 100+ corporate data sources without programming. It is used to connect services and apps on-premises or cloud-based, such as Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, Dynamics, Azure, SQL/ERP/CRM, and more for migration, backup, or permanent two-way synchronization.	$491 per installation

Pricing

dbt

Layer2 Cloud Connector

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Personal Edition: $491.00
per installation
Professional Edition: $1226.00
per installation

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
dbt	Layer2 Cloud Connector
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

$185 Setup Support

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	dbt	Layer2 Cloud Connector
Considered Both Products	dbt SI Sid Iyer BizOps 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Judy Campion Data Architect 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose dbt I haven't come across anything like DBT before. Incentivized Helpful? YP Yoshlin Pillay Senior Data Entry 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 Helpful? Obed Espina Senior Data Engineer 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose dbt dbt is great because of its transformation capabilities Incentivized Helpful? DD Daniel Denunzio Data Architect Chose dbt dbt fits much better in our stack, where we're using specialized tools to support our ELT approach. Incentivized Helpful?	Layer2 Cloud Connector Umair Mehboob Senior Devops Engineer Chose Layer2 Cloud Connector We had also used Microsoft One Drive as a syncing tool but it requires Office365 for managing and syncing data across thousands of vendors which was not practically possible to manage users on Office 365. Layer2 resolved this issue by having 3 user licenses and they are enough … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

dbt

Layer2 Cloud Connector

Data Transformations

Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
	dbt 9.5 Ratings 15% above category average	Layer2 Cloud Connector 5.5 Ratings 39% below category average
Simple transformations	10.00 Ratings	4.00 Ratings
Complex transformations	9.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	dbt 9.0 Ratings 12% above category average	Layer2 Cloud Connector - Ratings
Data model creation	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Metadata management	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Collaboration	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Testing and debugging	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Source Connection

Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
	dbt - Ratings	Layer2 Cloud Connector 6.0 Ratings 33% below category average
Connect to traditional data sources	00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings

Data Governance

Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
	dbt - Ratings	Layer2 Cloud Connector 6.5 Ratings 22% below category average
Integration with data quality tools	00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	dbt	Layer2 Cloud Connector
Small Businesses	Skyvia Score 9.9 out of 10	Skyvia Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	dbt	Layer2 Cloud Connector
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	dbt	Layer2 Cloud Connector
Likelihood to Recommend	dbt (Data Build Tool) is best suited for doing the data transformation. dbt is just a transformation tool and it is not suitable for building a data pipeline which requires extraction of data and loading. dbt is well suited for SQL based transformation logic and it is less appropriate when transformation logic requires python. Incentivized Sahil Khan Data Analyst Read full review	We had a scenario where our clients have thousands of external party vendors/committees who regularly sync SharePoint data. Managing thousands of external parties can never be possible without using a Layer2 cloud connector. We managed the local network sharing and SharePoint integration by using the Layer2 connector. Layer2 is convenient with a large amount of data as the per-user license is high. Umair Mehboob Senior Devops Engineer Read full review
Pros	user experience makes it easy to work with SQL and version control customer success team and the dbt (data build tool) community help establish best practices thorough and clear documentation Obed Espina Senior Data Engineer Read full review	Layer2 provides best connectivity with SharePoint It syncs local network shared files to the SharePoint Provides details file history Umair Mehboob Senior Devops Engineer Read full review
Cons	Slow load times of the dbt cloud environment (they're working on it via a new UI though) More out-of-the-box solutions for managing procedures, functions, etc would be nice to have, but honestly, it's pretty easy to figure out how to adapt dbt macros Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Per User cost is expensive A lot of pre-requisites UI needs to be more user-friendly Umair Mehboob Senior Devops Engineer Read full review
Usability	dbt is very easy to use. Basically if you can write SQL, you will be able to use dbt to get what you need done. Of course more advanced users with more technical skills can do more things. Incentivized SI Sid Iyer BizOps Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We had also used Microsoft One Drive as a syncing tool but it requires Office365 for managing and syncing data across thousands of vendors which was not practically possible to manage users on Office 365. Layer2 resolved this issue by having 3 user licenses and they are enough to periodically sync all external parties' data with our SharePoint online. Umair Mehboob Senior Devops Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	In 3 months we re-wrote the data warehouse (15-20 sources) in dbt with 3 developers. We are using it continually for the past year with no issues. Sorry, I don't have ROI numbers but the impact was huge. Incentivized Judy Campion Data Architect Read full review	Layer2 resolves the time management issue Resolved data syncing issues across different external vendors LOE optimisation with using Layer2 connector. Umair Mehboob Senior Devops Engineer Read full review
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