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Analytics Engineering done right!
What do you like best about the product?
dbt's UI is easy to navigate, easy to code in, and easy to run. Documentation is easily accessed and written; I especially like the automatically generated, interactive data model that you can quickly grab when you want to show a stakeholder your work or when you want to discuss a new solution with a colleague.
It resolves many of the pain points of analytics engineering. They are constantly making improvements and implementing new things, but if anything is missing, chances are you can find it in one of the many packages written for dbt. The community is also great, and many resources are provided either there, or in the dbt documentation.
It resolves many of the pain points of analytics engineering. They are constantly making improvements and implementing new things, but if anything is missing, chances are you can find it in one of the many packages written for dbt. The community is also great, and many resources are provided either there, or in the dbt documentation.
What do you dislike about the product?
I sometimes wish there were more "standard" tests in dbt (such as max character length, min character length, max value, min value). One can make these themselves in macros (and potentially some packages could help with this?), but it would be a nice-to-have!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data is cleaner, data transformation is simpler, and manual joins are no longer needed. In the end, we've created multiple clean and aggregated tables that can act as a source of truth for analysts. Our data is also better documented.
Changed my work life!
What do you like best about the product?
It basically turns SQL into a dev environment and forces you to productionise your code using good practices. It makes repo control super simple and allows SQL analysts to create data products and pipelines.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some quality of life improvements could be made to the GUI but apart from that it's great!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows data analysts to create full on data products, integrating wit Git and making the whole flow easy. It's also in cloud so it's super easy to use and set up.
Speed, Power, Control at low cost
What do you like best about the product?
the best achievements we reach with DBT is the time reductiong in ETL process .
What do you dislike about the product?
if you have to manage complex process you need to create a big number of models
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ETL time duration has been reduced and also our DWH cost decrease with this redcution
Great software to manage transformations
What do you like best about the product?
Eady to use, saves the need for a data engineer to manage our transformation pipelines, very scalable for our organization, integrates great with other tools in our tech stack
What do you dislike about the product?
dbt Cloud UI can be clunky and time consuming to load; without good data governance or guardrail, you can run up high data warehouse costs and a multiplication of tables and views
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
dbt helps us manage all our data transformations in a single location and to schedule jobs that produce all our production tables for analytics purposes (dashboards, reports, models)
One of the best data transformations tool on the market
What do you like best about the product?
What I love about DBT is the ease of use! You only need to know SQL to do all the data transformations you need
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside that comes to mind is the fact that there are a lot of tools you can use to work with DBT, and finding the right one might be tricky
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We automated all our data warehouse transformations with the help on DBT
One of the best Transformation product
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and setup
Transformation logic can be written easily
Python model makes it very much flexible
Transformation logic can be written easily
Python model makes it very much flexible
What do you dislike about the product?
Macros error debugging gets clumsy at times
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps me to write transformation logic easily
structured DB modelling
structured DB modelling
Awesome product + word of mouth
What do you like best about the product?
DBT solves the most fundamental and pressing problems that a small scale, agile data engineering team face. In particular it gives you the ability to take control of your datawarehouse, you decide, manage, develop, test, deploy the end to end steps of the warehouse, regardless of the technology you use.
What do you dislike about the product?
How it scales with complexity, size and maturity of the company. I struggle to see how this will progress into enterprise level solutions, but I could be surprised !
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A variety of technical problems: e.g. how to structure, how to run, how to deploy the logic underpinning the datawarehouse.
Some team problems: e.g. how do I ensure that various members of the data engineering team collaborate, share, build together
The benefits are clear, with 1 or 2 senior engineers that know dbt, you can build a data warehouse from scratch within a few months, with a budget 10 times smaller than what was possible previously.
This is clearly a technological rupture, there is a before and after dbt in the world of data warehouses (for startups )
Some team problems: e.g. how do I ensure that various members of the data engineering team collaborate, share, build together
The benefits are clear, with 1 or 2 senior engineers that know dbt, you can build a data warehouse from scratch within a few months, with a budget 10 times smaller than what was possible previously.
This is clearly a technological rupture, there is a before and after dbt in the world of data warehouses (for startups )
The perfect tool for the job
What do you like best about the product?
The cloud IDE is well-designed and executed, with great attention to detail. The overall design of the tool exactly meets the need of the analytics engineering problem.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike nothing, but two areas for future development might be (1 )column-level data lineage and (2) data-diff tools, both of which could help with evaluating the impacts of a model change before deploying it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Adding an abstraction layer on top of SQL allows me to write code to generate my transformations instead of coding them directly, saving time, adding power, and improving reusability.
dbt is the single most powerful tool in our arsenal
What do you like best about the product?
dbt allows us to create a federated data model including information from all of our operational platforms. As a result, we've eliminated swivelchair tasks, latency in report reconciliation, and blindspots in our ability to create a 360 degree view of our clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
I really don't have any complaints. To the extent that anything has been difficult, it's because I'm using something that is inherently a very complex tool. That said, the fact that a layperson without actual engineering experience can build with dbt says a lot about how well it'd built.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Like all businesses, we have data in many, many platforms and none of them are capable of reporting comprehensively on our business. dbt allows us to federate the data across those platforms and gives us a single data model to operate from.
dbt has fundamentally changed how I work with data
What do you like best about the product?
After working with BigQuery in the marketing and digital analytics space for a few years, we embraced dbt about 1,5 years ago. It has completely transformed our thinking about data modeling, quality, accountability of data products and documentation. From an analyst's perspective, dbt brings necessary engineering principles into data work and helps build data products for the longer term.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are always aspects that can be improved. The ecosystem has seen such fast growth that the space has become fragmented. Many tools built on top of dbt or are tightly integrated could be part of a more extensive suite.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organizing data transformations in BigQuery and building high-quality data marts for business use cases
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