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    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.

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    HVR (discontinued)

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AHVR’s real-time data replication solution was merged with Fivetran after the late 2021 acquisition of HVR by Fivetran. Functionality from HVR is now a part of Fivetran, and HVR is no longer available for sale.N/A
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Both Products
    dbt Labs
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    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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    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    dbtHVR (discontinued)
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of dbt and HVR (discontinued)
    Feature
    dbt
    9.8
    8 Ratings
    19% above category average
    HVR (discontinued)
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    Simple transformations10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations9.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of dbt and HVR (discontinued)
    Feature
    dbt
    9.1
    8 Ratings
    14% above category average
    HVR (discontinued)
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    Data model creation9.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
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    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Score10 out of 10
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    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    dbtHVR (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    dbtHVR (discontinued)
    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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    Discontinued Products
    HVR is a real-time replication tool, if you want to centralize your database to cloud in order to provide the best services to your clients or end-users then HVR plays a vital role. multiple sources such as on-premises and cloud databases need to be combined or out together on cloud for creating a centralized warehouse then HVR is very much useful as a replication tool. HVR is a very robust tool.
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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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    • Data replication from source to target system
    • Almost Realtime data refresh
    • CDC solution
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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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    • Connectivity with more source such as salesforce
    • Missing Enterprise manager
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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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    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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    HVR was cost-efficient to us compare to other tools also we had a demo with our data and found out that HVR's performance is much better when replicating data from SAP to Snowflake compare to any other tool. A huge volume of data can be handled very easily. Also, the connectivity with the number of sources to pull the data is very good and they are continuously adding more sources.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Almost Real time data availability
    • Makes Reporting easy for BI team
    • Quick development saves human efforts
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