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Effortless Data Transformation with Easy Setup and Integration
What do you like best about the product?
DBT is a data building tool that is very easy to setup, to use and we are using it every day for our data transformation. It is very easy to integrate and leverage the tool with lots for features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, it experiences server downtime.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
DBT is solving where our business analyst has data spread out in many different tables in our warehouse. Using DBT, I made datamart where I gathered all that information together so our BAs can get all the information they need from one single table.
User-Friendly Data Modeling with Seamless Integration
What do you like best about the product?
DBT is great for organizing data models. It is user friendly, integrates well with other tools, and they had a great onboarding process.
What do you dislike about the product?
In dbt Cloud, I cant work on two different branches at the same time in different browsers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
DBT allows us to take raw data from many sources and output it in clean, easy to use output tables that are used in our bi tool.
Provides excellent insight into the various sources and streams of data
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it has error-detection capabilities and offers a wide range of connections. It makes it easy to sync analytics data and has a simple user interface that makes data management easy. I was able to easily navigate through the pages using the side panel.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm satisfied with the platform, I haven't encountered any issues yet. The team has been excellent with us, they've developed an impressive management tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has allowed us to bring the most relevant data, offering a simple way to securely transfer data. We can obtain important product information, which has helped me save time and effort. I have had an excellent experience with this platform.
Facilitates the implementation of analytical code quickly and easily
What do you like best about the product?
The platform stands out for its exceptional consistency and timeliness. It's intuitive and well-designed, making it easy for our team to get up and running quickly, without the usual complexity or overhead. One of the most notable benefits for us has been its cost-effectiveness.
What do you dislike about the product?
We've had a fantastic experience working with this platform and are delighted with the results. As our data needs have grown, the platform has adapted seamlessly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This platform has facilitated the implementation of a new data strategy. Our data team now operates more efficiently, without the complexity of coordinating multiple systems or extraction methods.
Pro and cons of DBT at Professional area
What do you like best about the product?
I worked on DBT for 2 years as a data engineer , It is helpful in writing dynamic SQL queries by creating models and we can write pyspark code. Using both features we can do complex data transformations. Proper lineage is an added advantage
What do you dislike about the product?
DBT alone is not better , it should be integrated with other warehouses such as Snowflake, where there are other options in market which has both .
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped me in writing complex data transformation queries and cost is also low compared to other platforms available
DBT is an incredibly powerful, versatile, and inexpensive ETL tool
What do you like best about the product?
It is inexpensive to use the DBT cloud service. DBT itself is free for a self-hosted environment. Very easy to set up local dev/test. Quite intuitive to use. Flexibility of macros, functions, Jinja, etc. Easily integratable with Snowflake, Clickhouse, Postgres, etc. I've never had to reach out to DBT's customer support even once in the 5+ years I've been using it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish that more Jinja syntax was supported (like Ansible). I also wish that more functionality was default in the product (e.g. auto-generated YAML schemas). I was really excited about the semantic layer functionality that DBT released but it seems like the final product was a disappointment and it doesn't have some of the functionality that other layers have like symmetric aggregates.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building ETL/ELT pipelines, or building a reusable ETL/ETL tool, on my own would take a long time. Conversely, buying a solution would also tend to be quite expensive and most providers don't open source their code so I wouldn't be able to self-host if it made economic sense. DBT is both easy to set up and inexpensive, so it really beats all the other options
Great tool to easily transform documents and take advantage of their functions
What do you like best about the product?
What I liked most was being able to transform models, which is easy with DBT because its been extremely good and useful, with understandable documentation, and it speed up development time. The documentation is interactive , managed, and essential. It works well now. I like most of its features.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only issue I had a while back was that we received an error with no error code, which was difficult to troubleshoot because it wanst very informative.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
DBT does a great job solving problems in creating collaborative data models, bit data analytics, and data quality, which is beneficial for us, too, because of their ETL tools. Once you understand them, everything works together, making the job easier.
SQL Knowledge enough to become a Data Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
Useage of sql.
Incremental strategies - which makes append , merge and full refresh easy.
Snapshots - which makes building scd type 2 model error free.
High Availability - we are using Dbt cloud, i rarely see failure in pipelines.
Tests - which helps to validate the data.
Configuration is ease.
Incremental strategies - which makes append , merge and full refresh easy.
Snapshots - which makes building scd type 2 model error free.
High Availability - we are using Dbt cloud, i rarely see failure in pipelines.
Tests - which helps to validate the data.
Configuration is ease.
What do you dislike about the product?
During development sometimes - changes are cached.So changes will not reflect ,which require removal of target folder or deps or clean to resolve it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building aggregated tables for Gold layer.
Lineage helps in identifying the tables involved incase of new changes.
Lineage helps in identifying the tables involved incase of new changes.
DBT excellent data collaborative modeling software
What do you like best about the product?
I like to simplify the transformation of the data and take advantage of SQL and Python in DBT in addition their skills are ideal for our needs. Finally I liked it to be relatively economical to compare other similar tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
The negative for me is that sometimes the analytical development process can slow down a bit.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is very beneficial and if it solves the problems in the projects and the analysis of large amounts of data and the transformation of the SQL based data and ends up being useful for our equipment and really works well and I hope it is maintained like this.
Best data modeling tool
What do you like best about the product?
beautifull data lineage
easy to use and implement
dbt learning courses provided by dbt are super usefull
data sharing and orchestration is super easy
development in cloud ide is very good
custoer support is extreme fast and efficient
integration with snowflake and GitHub is easy
Using daily this tool for building data models
easy to use and implement
dbt learning courses provided by dbt are super usefull
data sharing and orchestration is super easy
development in cloud ide is very good
custoer support is extreme fast and efficient
integration with snowflake and GitHub is easy
Using daily this tool for building data models
What do you dislike about the product?
Beta features are very slow releasing. Rest all GREAT
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
building the business models from tables and views in traditional approach is use stored procedure, routines etc. but the new way of building analytics reports and datas marts are using CTE[ common table expression] which dbt solves.
dbt also solves and give beautifull lineages, from where your source data is traversrsing to final mart layer.
table level lineage is provided by dbt and is super usefull
reporting on a single layer is solved by dbt, meaning developer need not to login to data warehouse and dot the development.
dbt separates out the data warehouse from modelling layer
dbt also solves and give beautifull lineages, from where your source data is traversrsing to final mart layer.
table level lineage is provided by dbt and is super usefull
reporting on a single layer is solved by dbt, meaning developer need not to login to data warehouse and dot the development.
dbt separates out the data warehouse from modelling layer
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