Off the Bit
Tools: DBT
Category: Data, APIs and backends
Site: getdbt.com
DBT
Transformation as version-controlled SQL with tests and lineage. Turned analytics work into software engineering.
Brought code review to the warehouse.
What it is sold for
Building tested, documented data models in SQL.
Same shelf
The rest of data, apis and backends, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
- Open-source retrieval infrastructure for question answering, with the pipeline exposed rather than hidden behind an endpoint.
- A relational database wearing a spreadsheet, with automations and an API on top.
- Hosted search built for typing latency, with ranking and synonyms as configuration rather than as code.
- An open-source visual database with automation, positioned against the closed spreadsheet-database products.
- An open-source backend server bundling auth, databases, storage and functions behind one API.
- Schema migration and change review for databases, with the same approval flow across twenty engines.
- Open-source memory for agents, combining graph, vector and relational retrieval so recall survives the session.
- A distributed SQL database for time series and real-time analytics at volumes a single node cannot hold.
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