What is dbt?
dbt is a development framework that lets analysts and engineers collaborate on transformation workflows using their shared knowledge of SQL. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work faster and more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust.
| dbt Core is an open source command line framework that enables data teams to transform data following analytics engineering best practices. |
| dbt Cloud is presented as the fastest and most reliable way to deploy dbt. dbt Cloud provides a centralized development experience to safely deploy, monitor, and investigate transformation code in a web-based UI. |
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| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Mobile Application | No |
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What is dbt?
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.
How much does dbt cost?
dbt starts at $0.
What are dbt's top competitors?
Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Matillion, and Google Cloud Dataform are common alternatives for dbt.
What is dbt's best feature?
Reviewers rate Simple transformations and Collaboration highest, with a score of 10.