Airbyte vs. dbt

I think Airbyte is well suited for any company that needs one tool that can move data from one or many sources into a consolidated warehousing solution. Even if it's just one source to target connection, Airbyte simplifies the ability to perform extract and load actions without having to get knee deep in python scripting.

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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.

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• Moves data
• open source
• connection development
• Has an expansive catalog of integrated connectors out of the box

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• 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

• Logging can be a bit tricky

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• 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

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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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I was not at my company when we evaluated Airbyte

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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.

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• Airbyte has allowed us to get away from complex python scripts and allowed us to consolidate to one tool.
• It's allowed us to cut costs and have better observability on data being moved into our environment

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• 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.

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