dbt vs. Mage

dbt

dbt

54 Reviews and Ratings

Mage

Mage

3 Reviews and Ratings

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
Mage	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Mage is a tool that helps product developers use AI and their data to make predictions. Use cases might be predictions for churn prevention, product recommendations, customer lifetime value and forecasting sales.	$0 per user

Pricing

dbt

Mage

Editions & Modules

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Hobby: $0
per user
Pro: $2,000
per month per user

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Pricing Offerings
dbt	Mage
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	dbt	Mage
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?	Mage Verified User Anonymous Chose Mage Mage was the easiest in terms of ease of implementation due to its no-code functionality. However, Mage doesn't have a whole ecosystem like AWS and slightly falls behind there. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

dbt

Mage

Data Transformations

Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
	dbt 9.5 Ratings 15% above category average	Mage - Ratings
Simple transformations	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Complex transformations	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	dbt 9.0 Ratings 12% above category average	Mage - 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

Best Alternatives
	dbt	Mage
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	Astera Data Pipeline Builder (Centerprise) Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10	Control-M Score 9.3 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	dbt	Mage
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	dbt	Mage
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	Mage is well-suited for probability score for uptake of every product is calculated for customers using ML/ Regression models, choosing customers for a product/ Top products for a customer, based on the requirement and Identifying popular product combinations using association rules from Market Basket Analysis (or affinity Analysis)\Bundle these products as combos. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Ranking algorithms. Cloud-based tool. Increase user engagement. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Acquisition Contribution. Business Intelligence Reporting. Data Destinations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Mage was the easiest in terms of ease of implementation due to its no-code functionality. However, Mage doesn't have a whole ecosystem like AWS and slightly falls behind there. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Business Understanding. Data Acquisition and Understanding. Data Modeling and Evaluation. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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