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I have a weird vibe with Fivetran, Snowflake and Looker together as a combo with their credit based billing. Those three tools provide a platform that makes it

I have a weird vibe with Fivetran, Snowflake and Looker together as a combo with their credit based billing. Those three tools provide a platform that makes it easy to forget about engineering things correctly and just throwing money at the problem. It’s makes it so easy to do really dumb expensive things. LookML is another “lock in” type product (much prefer using DBT with a Data Vault model). Once you’re knee deep in LookML you’ll have a hard time switching to another analytics tool. Snowflake makes it so easy to do massive compute that your badly designed data models won’t matter. Fivetran is really cool though, but you need to be careful about getting into bed with all 3 those products at once.

iamben 4y ago
Yeah, we've found some of their (5T) competitors (who bill by connector) make far more sense for certain services. Love fivetran, though.
- brainbag 4y ago
  Who else do you use? Fivetran's syncing has been very reliable (compared to others we tried) but the "active row" based pricing is unpredictable and can have huge spikes in billing costs. I've been waiting for reliable competition with compute- or size-based pricing.
  - iamben 4y ago
    https://dataddo.com/ https://dataddo.com/ They've been very good to us, definitely recommend. Reach out to gabriel.giely@ - he's very helpful.
  - swyx 4y ago
    for what its worth, we've been offering compute based pricing at Airbyte, and recently published our learnings here https://airbyte.com/blog/introducing-volume-based-pricing https://airbyte.com/blog/introducing-volume-based-pricing does this match the size-based pricing you are thinking about?
hackernewds 4y ago
As a product suite it makes a ton of sense. Sucks for the downstream users needing to manage terrible data models and hacky ETL workflows in LookML though
mjcl 4y ago
Our last Fivetran renewal switched from credits to straight $-per-MAR. The remaining credits were converted to a $ credit.

iamben 4y ago

Yeah, we've found some of their (5T) competitors (who bill by connector) make far more sense for certain services. Love fivetran, though.

brainbag 4y ago
Who else do you use? Fivetran's syncing has been very reliable (compared to others we tried) but the "active row" based pricing is unpredictable and can have huge spikes in billing costs. I've been waiting for reliable competition with compute- or size-based pricing.
- iamben 4y ago
  https://dataddo.com/ https://dataddo.com/ They've been very good to us, definitely recommend. Reach out to gabriel.giely@ - he's very helpful.
- swyx 4y ago
  for what its worth, we've been offering compute based pricing at Airbyte, and recently published our learnings here https://airbyte.com/blog/introducing-volume-based-pricing https://airbyte.com/blog/introducing-volume-based-pricing does this match the size-based pricing you are thinking about?

hackernewds 4y ago

As a product suite it makes a ton of sense. Sucks for the downstream users needing to manage terrible data models and hacky ETL workflows in LookML though

mjcl 4y ago

Our last Fivetran renewal switched from credits to straight $-per-MAR. The remaining credits were converted to a $ credit.