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What's the lock-in?
by Kiro 1y ago
What's the lock-in?
- globular-toast 1y agoI'm wondering too. We run dbt on-prem. Worst that could happen is we don't get any more free updates. But we have the software and it will continue to run.
- hn1986 1y agothe concern is that dbt-core will become stagnant.
- mjirv 1y agoIt basically already has since they started developing dbt Fusion, so in that respect this probably doesn’t change much. I expect they’ll keep developing Fusion but possibly as even more of a commercial-only offering than it already was.
- globular-toast 1y agoWhat's the problem specifically? Are you banking on some future features? Can't fix the bugs yourself? Worried it won't be compatible with future data warehouses? I know people don't like it these days, but you can just continue to run old software.
- vovavili 1y agodbt in particular is effectively useless without maintained and up-to-date connectors to your particular database.
- globular-toast 1y agoDo your database vendors often do breaking changes to their protocols? dbt just generates SQL and that's not going anywhere.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoThe cloud component is probably sticky if you have come to rely on those parts.