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What does Dbt Labs do? I've read their website, but I need a concrete example.
by GoToRO 2y ago
What does Dbt Labs do? I've read their website, but I need a concrete example.
- CaveTech 2y agoIn simplest of terms, it's a templating and orchestration layer for data pipelines which which compiles purely into SQL expressions.
- grajaganDev 2y agoHow is it different from Looker and LookML?
- anon84873628 2y agoLooker is mostly a reporting tool. LookML let's you define some transformations that happen at query time. There is a little bit of materialization functionality with the PDTs, but that doesn't seem intended as a replacement for other "ELT" tools.
- aradox66 2y agoIt takes your data operation from 1995 to 2025
- ra 2y agoThink of dbt as yarn for SQL, only the SQL is built from jinja templates. dbtlabs also sells dbt cloud, which provides a runtime for your dbt projects.
- ewuhic 2y agoGiven replies to this comment, I cannot think of a more useless thing. Yarn for sql in cloud, why?? Why is that needed???