dbt vs. Hevo Data

dbt

Hevo Data

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
dbt	Score 9.1 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
Hevo	Score 4.2 out of 10	N/A	Hevo Data is a no-code, bi-directional data pipeline platform specially built for modern ETL, ELT, and Reverse ETL Needs. It helps data teams streamline and automate org-wide data flows to save engineering time/week and drive faster reporting, analytics, and decision making. The platform supports 100+ ready-to-use integrations across Databases, SaaS Applications, Cloud Storage, SDKs, and Streaming Services. The platform boasts 500 data-driven companies spread across 35+…	$0 per month

Pricing

dbt

Hevo Data

Editions & Modules

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Free: $0
per month
Starter: $149 to $999
Per Month (Paid Yearly)
Business: Custom Pricing

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
dbt	Hevo
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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Hevo offers a Free Plan and a 14-day Free Trial for all the paid plans.

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Community Pulse
	dbt	Hevo Data
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?	Hevo YP Yoshlin Pillay Senior Data Entry Chose Hevo Fivetran is a really good product, but it is extremely pricey. Especially if you don't have dollar buying power in your country. If you don't require complex transforms and data governance tools then Hevo is much cheaper and probably a better fit for purpose product. … Incentivized Helpful? Shubham Rawat Data Analyst Chose Hevo 1. Cost efficient 2. Creation of automated pipeline 3. Can load data from multiple data sources Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Hevo Much lower cost and faster syncs but not as good support. More flexible in terms of pricing, though. Fivetran requires annual contracts and is very inflexible. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

dbt

Hevo Data

Data Transformations

Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
	dbt 9.7 Ratings 18% above category average	Hevo Data - Ratings
Simple transformations	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Complex transformations	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	dbt 9.1 Ratings 15% above category average	Hevo Data - Ratings
Data model creation	9.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Metadata management	8.70 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	Hevo Data
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Enterprises	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10	Control-M Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	dbt	Hevo Data
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.7 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	dbt	Hevo Data
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	Hevo Data is professionally sound in data management and credible analytical processes, where there is proper sourcing and data connectivity, from the different sources. Further, Hevo Data brings huge transformation and analytical approaches, which increases the viability of every operation in the company, and results are credibly issued. The integration that Hevo Data provides is comprehensively sound, and it gives quality coordination. Incentivized RM Ricy Marko Computer and Information Systems Manager 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	5 Minute Sync with Salesforce Transformations Auto Schema Mapping Push to Salesforce 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	If we are getting data from other sheets then sheet which is connected to Hevo Data doesn't updates in real-time. Hevo Data change time in it's workbench on its own. For e.g. If our database timestamp is in UTC format then Hevo Data will automatically change the time to IST but if I run the same code outside the Hevo Data workbench then time is still in UTC. This creates lots of confusion while working on Hevo Data. Incentivized Shubham Rawat Data Analyst 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	1. Cost efficient 2. Creation of automated pipeline 3. Can load data from multiple data sources 4. Updates data in near real-time - We were able to get near real time insights from the data model which we have created in hevo 5. It has good integration with different BI tools Incentivized Shubham Rawat Data Analyst 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	Increased Time Decreased Failures Increased User Happiness Incentivized YP Yoshlin Pillay Senior Data Entry Read full review
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