[jerglingu]

Fivetran has been diligent the three years I was tucked away in FAANG analytics. When I emerged earlier this year back into the world of normal companies, I realized there was a sort of holy trinity of companies that has completely dominated the analytics SaaS market: Fivetran, Snowflake, and dbt. I had only heard of Snowflake before.

[adammarples]

Dbt is actually fishtown analytics, and I would add databricks to that list

[rorymalcolm]

https://technical.ly/startups/dbt-labs-series-c/ They changed their name semi-recently to dbt Labs

[mastazi]

tangentially related: if I'm already using Fivetran, DBT and Snowflake, where does Databricks fit in? From reading their marketing material, it would seem that Databricks is a full featured solution that replaces all of the above and offers everything from ingestion to ETL and even analytics. However I keep hearing of companies using Databricks alongside those other products and I don't understand how does it fit into that type of data pipeline.

[kthejoker2]

Disclaimer: I work at Databricks.

Databricks is more of a platform than "just" a tool. So yes we offer first-party "end to end" solutions, and we're happy to show their value to you and convince you to pay for them, but we play nice with others, and we have a ton of great partners who can connect into our platform and help you ingest, transform, analyze, and consume your data. So you can use our native ingestion tools, or partners like Fivetran; our native ETL/ELT tools, or dbt; our native SQL/BI/warehousing capabilities, or Snowflake.

The metaphor Andy Kofoid our VP of Ops uses is XBox or Steam. They're a platform others can build things on, but they also sell their own games and offer value-added services on top of the things others are selling.

And like those platforms, we have the same ultimate twin goals of attracting customers and partners.

[hulahoof]

A lot of people use databricks for the analytical and ML workloads (leveraging it as a sort of extended spark environment)

[benjaminwootton]

Its a great stack and works well together. Ingest with Fivetran, transform with DBT and store in Snowflake. Simple, serverless, consumption based pricing etc. definetly better than the old ETL world!

[ckdarby]

What about Palantir?