TL;DR - dbt
- Data transformation with SQL
- Version control for analytics code
- Tests ensure data quality
Pricing: Free plan available
Best for: Growing teams
Score: 88/100
Pricing
Freemium
View pricing dbt offers a free plan with paid upgrades.
About dbt
dbt transforms data in your warehouse using SQL. Write SELECT statements, and dbt handles dependencies, testing, and documentation—software engineering practices applied to analytics code.
Version control for transformations. Tests ensure data quality. Documentation generates automatically from code.
Data teams treat dbt as essential because it brought engineering discipline to analytics workflows that used to be undocumented SQL scripts.
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dbt FAQ
dbt Core is free and open source. dbt Cloud has free tier for 1 developer. Team $100/month. Enterprise custom.
dbt (data build tool) transforms data in your warehouse using SQL. Version control, testing, and documentation for analytics engineering.
dbt Cloud is the hosted platform with IDE, scheduling, and collaboration. dbt Core is the CLI tool you can run anywhere.
Different tools. dbt transforms data (T in ELT). Airflow orchestrates workflows. Often used together - Airflow runs dbt jobs.