dbt
Transform data in your warehouse
dbt (data build tool) transforms data inside your warehouse using SQL. Version control, testing, and documentation for analytics engineering. The standard for data transformation.
Panel Reviews
The Builder
Developer Perspective
“SQL-based transformation with version control, testing, and documentation. dbt defined modern analytics engineering.”
The Skeptic
Reality Check
“Every data team should use dbt. The testing and documentation alone justify it.”
The Futurist
Big Picture
“dbt standardized how data teams work. The semantic layer and metrics store are the next frontier.”
Community Sentiment
“dbt single-handedly professionalized analytics engineering — SQL with software engineering best practices”
“dbt Core is genuinely great; dbt Cloud is overpriced but the open source version is hard to beat”
“Every data team should be using dbt — version controlled SQL transformations changed how we work”
“The documentation and lineage graph alone make this worth it — finally know where our data comes from”