Comment by GoToRO
What does Dbt Labs do? I've read their website, but I need a concrete example.
What does Dbt Labs do? I've read their website, but I need a concrete example.
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.
In simplest of terms, it's a templating and orchestration layer for data pipelines which which compiles purely into SQL expressions.