dbt - bang for your buck for transformation in ETL stack
June 24, 2022
dbt - bang for your buck for transformation in ETL stack
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
dbt Developer
Overall Satisfaction with dbt (data build tool)
I use dbt on the T part of ETL in my data tech stack. It is amazing and also does the change control quite well. So, to summarize - ingest, do a multitude of transforms, spit out to data mart. Allows various business logic applications to data to happen simultaneously and well tracked for the data marts.
- Transformation
- Change Control
- Organisation
- Flow build
- Learning Curve is steep
- Better documentation
- Better YouTube tutorials
- Change Control
- Transformation
- Developer vibe for data analysts
- Quicker insights
- Quicker data
- Quicker solves
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 transforms - also dbt is pretty much free dependent on how you work it, also extremely scalable.
Do you think dbt delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with dbt's feature set?
Yes
Did dbt live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of dbt go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy dbt again?
Yes