dbt

dbt

70 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
dbt	Score9.2 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.	$0 per month per seat

Pricing

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dbt
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Key User Insights
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Considered Both Products	dbt Labs Sid Iyer BizOps in Corporate at Lemonade (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees) 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 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 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 in Corporate at UserTesting (Information Services, 501-1000 employees) 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 Chose dbt I haven't come across anything like DBT before. Incentivized Helpful? Yoshlin Pillay Senior Data Entry in Information Technology at Kandua (Construction, 1-10 employees) 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 in Engineering at Vimeo (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) 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 Chose dbt dbt is great because of its transformation capabilities Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Denunzio Data Architect in Information Technology at Precision Nutrition (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees) Chose dbt dbt fits much better in our stack, where we're using specialized tools to support our ELT approach. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	100% Would buy again 10 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	100% Delivers good value for the price 9 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	100% Happy with the feature set 10 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 8 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
90% Implementation went as expected 9 Answers

Features

dbt

Comparison of Data Transformations features of dbt
Feature	dbt 9.8 8 Ratings 19% above category average
Simple transformations	10.08 Ratings
Complex transformations	9.58 Ratings

Comparison of Data Modeling features of dbt
Feature	dbt 9.1 8 Ratings 15% above category average
Data model creation	9.88 Ratings
Metadata management	8.88 Ratings
Business rules and workflow	9.08 Ratings
Collaboration	10.06 Ratings
Testing and debugging	8.08 Ratings

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User Ratings
	dbt
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (10 ratings)
Usability	9.8 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	dbt
Likelihood to Recommend	dbt Labs The prerequisite is that you have a supported database/data warehouse and have already found a way to ingest your raw data. Then dbt is very well suited to manage your transformation logic if the people using it are familiar with SQL. If you want to benefit from bringing engineering practices to data, dbt is a great fit. It can bring CI/CD practices, version control, automated testing, documentation generation, etc. It is not so well suited if the people managing the transformation logic do not like to code (in SQL) but prefer graphical user interfaces. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	dbt Labs dbt supports version control through GIT, this allows teams to collaborate and track the data transformation logic. dbt allows us to build data models which helps to break complex transformation logic into simple and smaller logic. dbt is completely based on SQL which allows data analyst and data engineers to build the transformation logic. dbt can be easily integrated with snowflake. Incentivized Sahil Khan Data Analyst Read full review
Cons	dbt Labs Field-level lineage (currently at table level) Documentation inheritance - if a field is documented the downstream field of the same name could inherit the doc info Adding python model support (in beta now) Incentivized Judy Campion Data Architect Read full review
Usability	dbt Labs 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 Sid Iyer BizOps Read full review
Alternatives Considered	dbt Labs 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 there's a FREE version for 1 dev seat with no read-only access for anyone else, so you can always start with that and then buy yourself a seat later. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	dbt Labs Simplified our BI layer for faster load times Increased the quality of data reaching our end users Makes complex transformations manageable Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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