dbt vs. DataGrip

dbt

dbt

67 Reviews and Ratings

DataGrip

DataGrip

46 Reviews and Ratings

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
DataGrip	Score 9.6 out of 10	N/A	DataGrip, from JetBrains, is a database IDE that is tailored to suit the specific needs of professional SQL developers.	$99 per year per user

Pricing

dbt

DataGrip

Editions & Modules

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For Individuals: $99
per year per user
For Organizations: $229
per year per user
All Products Pack for Individuals: $289
per year per user
All Products Pack for Organizations: $779
per year per user

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	dbt	DataGrip
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?	DataGrip Jay Moore CIO Chose DataGrip I think it blows away mysql workbench hands down. Workbench does have more functionality when it comes managing the mysql instance, viewing performance etc. Navicat is ok, it might be better for new database develoopers. I stumbled upon DataGrip cause it came with jetbrains … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DataGrip One place for all the connections and uniformity of use and interaction Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DataGrip DataGrip provides a single UI for many DBMS platforms, instead of using one for each. Because of that, you can migrate things between platforms using the tool and "look across" all databases at once. Incentivized Helpful? MP Maria Pulenta Client Account Executive Chose DataGrip DataGrip is the most widely used software for simplified data management; we can know what is missing and what is leftover. The interface is straightforward and with a lot of security in its use of the system. All this has been its plus point. Incentivized Helpful? David Mendoza Digital Project Manager Chose DataGrip DataGrip makes it easy to access and manage multiple databases locally and remotely, simplifies everything, and has powerful integrated features and resources that allow you to visualize and analyze data from a single platform. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

dbt

DataGrip

Data Transformations

Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
	dbt 9.7 Ratings 18% above category average	DataGrip - 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	DataGrip - 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	DataGrip
Small Businesses	Skyvia Score 10.0 out of 10	PyCharm Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10	PyCharm Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10	PyCharm Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	dbt	DataGrip
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	8.4 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.7 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	dbt	DataGrip
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	It is undoubtedly one of the best database management programs. It dramatically simplifies database management and administration. Its extensive support for various database engines is a point to highlight when we talk about DataGrip; you will like having such a powerful resource much as we do. Incentivized David Mendoza Digital Project 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	Connects to most of the db engines known auto complete is powerful and db objects introspection is complete one place for all your db connections 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	Can be a memory hog No free community version with limited functionality 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	Perfect other than a way to handle saving and re-using queries. A simple/better way of creating a pool of queries for each project or database connection would be very helpful. It is not bad now, just could be a better. I have used Navicat for MySQL in the past it had that feature. It could save all your queries to the cloud and you could use them on any device. Incentivized Jay Moore CIO Read full review
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	DataGrip is the most widely used software for simplified data management; we can know what is missing and what is leftover. The interface is straightforward and with a lot of security in its use of the system. All this has been its plus point. Incentivized MP Maria Pulenta Client Account Executive 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	Less time to develop database structures Easy to filter and find data Export data for reporting purposes Incentivized Jay Moore CIO Read full review
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