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Azure Databricks vs. dbt

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAzure Databricks

by Microsoft

dbt

by Fivetran

Overall rating4.54.7
Review count240209
Ease of use8.99.1
Ease of setup8.98.8
Quality of support8.79.0
Meets requirements9.09.3
NPS68.69158981.25
Small Business25.1%27.1%
Mid-Market27.6%56.5%
Enterprise47.3%16.4%
Total page views404780
Total LLM citations1,9814,329

Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks is a unified, open analytics platform developed collaboratively by Microsoft and Databricks. Built on the lakehouse architecture, it seamlessly integrates data engineering, data science, and machine learning within the Azure ecosystem. This platform simplifies the development and deployment of data-driven applications by providing a collaborative workspace that supports multiple programming languages, including SQL, Python, R, and Scala.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • Integrations
  • Speed
  • Scaling
  • Analytics

dbt

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.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • Automation
  • Transformation
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Data Quality