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dbt is a transformation workflow that lets data teams quickly and collaboratively deploy analytics code following software engineering best practices like modularity, portability, CI/CD, and documentation. Now anyone who knows SQL can build production-grade data pipelines.

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dbt is a transformation workflow that lets teams quickly and collaboratively deploy analytics code following software engineering best practices like modularity, portability, CI/CD, and documentation. Now anyone who knows SQL can build production-grade data pipelines.

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Eduardo V.

Data Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/18/2025

"Great tool to easily transform documents and take advantage of their functions"

5/5

What do you like best about dbt?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dbt?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andy M.

Business Intelligence Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/26/2025

"DBT is an incredibly powerful, versatile, and inexpensive ETL tool"

5/5

What do you like best about dbt?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dbt?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dbt 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kathryn M.

Data Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/13/2025

"DBT excellent data collaborative modeling software"

5/5

What do you like best about dbt?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dbt?

The negative for me is that sometimes the analytical development process can slow down a bit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anandhakumar R.

Data Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/28/2025

"DBT at my point of view"

4/5

What do you like best about dbt?

Data transformation logic can be expressed in SQL

Data can be transformed in batch

Ease to use, it has lot of good features similar in Django web application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dbt?

Joining multiple database types is not possible. Ie., combining two databases like oracle and mysql.

Persistent cluster is required for running the sql statements.

Like Presto/Hive it can’t be connected to BI Directly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Publishing

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/18/2025

"ELT made easy with just SQL"

3.5/5

What do you like best about dbt?

All I need is to write some SQL select statements and specify materialisation type. My table will be created with the type of load I want to perform.

Support tickets are resolved quickly from support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dbt?

Sometimes the error is not described aptly. This makes parsing error and debugging difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dbt solving and how is that benefiting you?

DBT eliminates the need for writing complex code and tedious orchestration jobs.

I can create any model with just SQL and orchestration made easy with creating job. Tags feature with lineage made my job easy by running sequence of models.

Lineage is helpful in visualising data flow. Lint feature helps with code formatting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Media Production

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/18/2025

"SQL Knowledge enough to become a Data Engineer"

5/5

What do you like best about dbt?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dbt?

During development sometimes - changes are cached.So changes will not reflect ,which require removal of target folder or deps or clean to resolve it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Servio Q.

Software Engineer

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/30/2024

"A game changer for dashboarding"

4/5

What do you like best about dbt?

You would feel really strange at first but after you start the integration will notice how easy to use it is. Great Documentation and community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dbt?

The initial deployment is not ideal, and it would be beneficial to have a interface for dbt Core to support analysts who do not use Git on a daily basis but still take advantage of its benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rijul S.

Lead Data Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/15/2024

"Best data modeling tool"

5/5

What do you like best about dbt?

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dbt?

Beta features are very slow releasing. Rest all GREAT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is dbt 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sushanth U.

Tableau Developer and Admin

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/16/2025

"We majorly use DBT cloud for ETL in the organization"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dbt?

It's simple, SQL based approach and easy to version control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dbt?

Challenging to manage large scale and complex dependencies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/3/2025

"Elevating Our Data Stack"

4.5/5

What do you like best about dbt?

dbt's ability to streamline data workflows is excellent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about dbt?

While dbt is great, for extremely large datasets or highly complex transformations, native SQL compilation might still require deep optimization knowledge or workarounds to achieve peak performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.