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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    dbt

    Score9.2 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.

    $0

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    Grafana Cloud

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AGrafana Cloud is a fully managed Observability Platform designed to aggregate, visualize, and analyze telemetry data across distributed architectures. The platform provides a unified environment for Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Continuous Profiling, utilizing the LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) and Pyroscope stack to provide high-cardinality analysis of system state.

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    Looker

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ALooker is a BI application with an analytics-oriented application server that sits on top of relational data stores. It includes an end-user interface for exploring data, a reusable development paradigm for data discovery, and an API for supporting data in other systems.N/A
    Pricing
    dbtGrafana CloudLooker
    Editions & Modules
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    Grafana Cloud - Pro
    $8
    per month up to 1 active user
    Grafana Cloud - Free
    Free
    10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
    Grafana Cloud - Advanced
    Volume Discounts
    custom data usage custom active users
    Grafana - Enterprise Stack
    Custom Pricing
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    dbtGrafana CloudLooker
    Considered Multiple Products
    dbt Labs
    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 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
    I haven't come across anything like DBT before.
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    Grafana Labs
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    Google
    Chose Looker
    Technically, Power BI is much more complete and powerful, but it's like an ocean liner. I didn't need all that equipment. In my case, I needed to move more quickly, like on a speedboat, to build a page with several data sources in a single source of truth that could be easily …
    Incentivized
    Chose Looker
    If you company is using Google suite products, Looker is a no-brainer. Tableau is probably the most flexibly but as a result it has the least governance capabilities. Power BI is kind of old-school in terms of how it feels to use it. I think in general, Looker brings a lot of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Looker
    Looker's user-friendly interface and pre-built visualizations resonated with us. While other tools offered similar features, Looker felt smoother and more intuitive, especially for non-technical users. This was crucial for our goal of empowering widespread data exploration …
    Incentivized
    Chose Looker
    Looker is more mailable; it allows more dynamic visualisations, filters, drilldowns etc. It's sharing capabilities are also more streamlined than AWS Quicksight. However in contrast to this AWS Quicksight can leverage AWS IAM roles and policies which can be quite scalable. …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    dbtGrafana CloudLooker
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of dbt and Grafana Cloud and Looker
    Feature
    dbt
    9.8
    8 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Grafana Cloud
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    Simple transformations10.08 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations9.58 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of dbt and Grafana Cloud and Looker
    Feature
    dbt
    9.1
    8 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Grafana Cloud
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    Data model creation9.88 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management8.88 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow9.08 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration10.06 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging8.08 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of dbt and Grafana Cloud and Looker
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    Looker
    7.4
    134 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings00 Ratings6.5110 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings00 Ratings8.2133 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings00 Ratings7.5115 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of dbt and Grafana Cloud and Looker
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    Looker
    6.8
    132 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings00 Ratings6.3128 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings00 Ratings6.6130 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings00 Ratings5.655 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.8131 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of dbt and Grafana Cloud and Looker
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    Looker
    7.9
    128 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings00 Ratings7.7105 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings00 Ratings7.8113 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings00 Ratings7.984 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings00 Ratings8.2110 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of dbt and Grafana Cloud and Looker
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    Looker
    6.6
    128 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings00 Ratings7.7124 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings00 Ratings7.5110 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings00 Ratings4.66 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of dbt and Grafana Cloud and Looker
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    dbt
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    Grafana Cloud
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    Looker
    7.3
    128 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings00 Ratings7.5120 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings00 Ratings7.2105 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings00 Ratings7.2122 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings00 Ratings7.360 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of dbt and Grafana Cloud and Looker
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    Looker
    5.2
    95 Ratings
    39% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings00 Ratings4.991 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings00 Ratings5.885 Ratings
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    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    dbtGrafana CloudLooker
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    10.0
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    9.4
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    8.0
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    9.2
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    Usability
    9.8
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    8.8
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    Data Sharing and Collaboration
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    8.5
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    Data Sources
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    7.3
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    Ease of integration
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    10.0
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    Product Scalability
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    10.0
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    Professional Services
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    User Testimonials
    dbtGrafana CloudLooker
    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.
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    Grafana Labs
    Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation
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    Google
    When data drives potential for new orders, Looker earns its place in our tech stack. If, on the other hand, we are hoping for pipeline generation, Looker is useful if you are willing to repeatedly go check customer utilizations .... it is not appropriate if you are hoping to automate data analysis for this purpose.
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    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.
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    Grafana Labs
    • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
    • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
    • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
    • Microservices monitoring
    • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
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    Google
    • Show visited pages - sessions, pageviews - which programs are viewed the most.
    • Displays session source/medium views to see where users are coming from.
    • It shows the video titles, URLs, and event counts so we can monitor the performance of our videos.
    • It gives a graphic face to the numbers, such as using bar charts, pie graphs, and other charts to show user trends or which channels are driving engagement.
    • Our clients like to see the top pages visited for a month.
    • I like the drop-and-drag approach, and building charts is a little easier than it was before.
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    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)
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    Grafana Labs
    • There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).
    • We've open[ed] up configuration files in command line text editors and manually do the settings e.g. LDAP/SSO configuration.
    • In terms of visualization, it's best, but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could destroy business of all other visualization tools.
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    Google
    • Documentation is scarce, and very difficult to find when you need it.
    • Pricing is unclear, particularly as you look to scale your reports across the business.
    • Data from other sources is not represented in the system as well as first party Google services.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    dbt Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    I give it this rating because it deems as effective, I am able to complete majority of my tasks using this app. It is very helpful when analyzing the data provided and shown in the app and it's just overall a great app for Operational use, despite the small hiccups it has (live data).
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    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.
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    Grafana Labs
    It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources
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    Google
    Looker is relatively easy to use, even as it is set up. The customers for the front-end only have issues with the initial setup for looker ml creations. Other "looks" are relatively easy to set up, depending on the ETL and the data which is coming into Looker on a regular basis.
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    Reliability and Availability
    dbt Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Grafana Labs
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    Google
    No objections
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    Performance
    dbt Labs
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    Grafana Labs
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    Google
    Somehow resources heavy, both on server and client. I recommned at least 50Mbs data rate and high performance desktop comouter to be abke to run comolex tasks and configure larger amount of data. On the other hand, the client does not need to worry when viewing, the performance is usually ok
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    Support Rating
    dbt Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Never had to work with support for issues. Any questions we had, they would respond promptly and clearly. The one-time setup was easy, by reading documentation. If the feature is not supported, they will add a feature request. In this case, LDAP support was requested over OKTA. They are looking into it.
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    Implementation Rating
    dbt Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Very satisfied, easy to implement
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    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.
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    Grafana Labs
    Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
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    Google
    Looker Studio, you can easily report on data from various sources without programming. Looker Studio is available at no charge for creators and report viewers. Enterprise customers who upgrade to Looker Studio Pro will receive support and expanded administrative features, including team content management. So it's good.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    dbt Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Grafana Labs
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    Google
    Perfect price to performance
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    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
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    Grafana Labs
    • Grafana has replaced many higher priced tools
    • The integrations are seemless with multiple backends
    • Combining graphs and dashboards from multiple data sources is a game changer
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    Google
    • Looker has a poignant impact on our business's ROI objectives. As an advertising exchange we have specific goals for daily requests and fill, and having premade Looks to monitor this is an integral piece of our operational capability
    • To facilitate an efficient monthly billing cycle in our organization, Looker is essential to track estimated revenue and impression delivery by publisher. Without the Looks we have set up, we would spend considerably more time and effort segmenting revenue by vertical.
    • Looker's unique value proposition is making analytical tools more digestible to people without conventional analytical experience. Other competing tools like Tableau require considerably more training and context to successfully use, and the ability to easily plot different visualizations is one of its greatest selling points.
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    ScreenShots

    Looker Screenshots

    Screenshot of a Looker dashboard with a geo chart.