← Back to context Comment by GoToRO 4 days ago What does Dbt Labs do? I've read their website, but I need a concrete example. 6 comments GoToRO Reply CaveTech 4 days ago In simplest of terms, it's a templating and orchestration layer for data pipelines which which compiles purely into SQL expressions. grajaganDev 4 days ago How is it different from Looker and LookML? anon84873628 4 days ago Looker 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. ra 4 days ago Think 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. aradox66 4 days ago It takes your data operation from 1995 to 2025 ewuhic 4 days ago Given replies to this comment, I cannot think of a more useless thing. Yarn for sql in cloud, why?? Why is that needed???
CaveTech 4 days ago In simplest of terms, it's a templating and orchestration layer for data pipelines which which compiles purely into SQL expressions. grajaganDev 4 days ago How is it different from Looker and LookML? anon84873628 4 days ago Looker 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.
grajaganDev 4 days ago How is it different from Looker and LookML? anon84873628 4 days ago Looker 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.
anon84873628 4 days ago Looker 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.
ra 4 days ago Think 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 4 days ago Given replies to this comment, I cannot think of a more useless thing. Yarn for sql in cloud, why?? Why is that needed???
In simplest of terms, it's a templating and orchestration layer for data pipelines which which compiles purely into SQL expressions.
How is it different from Looker and LookML?
Looker 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.
Think 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.
It takes your data operation from 1995 to 2025
Given replies to this comment, I cannot think of a more useless thing. Yarn for sql in cloud, why?? Why is that needed???