Comment by mritchie712

Comment by mritchie712 6 months ago

I've been on the lookout for a lighter, faster version of dbt and I was hoping sdf might be it.

For our (https://www.definite.app/) use case, I'd love to have something that compiles client-side, but in general dbt just feels like a lot of work to set up for what most of our customers actually need (simple transform to create tables and views).

thenaturalist 6 months ago

A lot of work to set up?

I'm quite surprised to hear that.

It's literally pip install, a single file for your DB config and that's it. 30-40 seconds.

I'm in no way affiliated with dbt but have worked with the tool since 2018.

Lighter, faster, sure, but hard to set up?

I'm not sure where you'd want to cut corners on setup.

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apwell23 6 months ago

I think they mean setting up in production.

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- thenaturalist 6 months ago
  
  Even that... the beauty of it and why it took off as much as it did is simplicity.
  Dockerfile, env var injection and you're done.
  
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dangoldin 6 months ago

I'm sure you've heard of SQLMesh but that seems like a potential fit. Or is it still too heavy handed?

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