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Matillion Data Productivity Cloud vs dbt comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 31, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

dbt
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (38th)
Matillion Data Productivity...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (6th)
 

Featured Reviews

Ninad Magdum - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer-friendly and easy to use, but doesn't have many optimization options
We also use stored procedures and Talend. They are not replaced by dbt completely. We use dbt only for the transformation process. My recommendations would depend on an organization’s requirements and problems. I will recommend the tool to others. The product is developer-friendly. However, it is still dependent on the data warehouse for big data and optimization. It's just a SQL transformation tool. It doesn't have a lot of optimization options like Spark. It's a good tool for Snowflake. If it were only for Snowflake, I would have rated it an eight out of ten. However, there are other data platforms. Overall, I rate the tool a six and a half out of ten.
Tomáš Hronek - PeerSpot reviewer
Used for wrangling or transforming data from sources like S3 and Databricks
I use Matillion ETL for wrangling or transforming data from sources like S3 and Databricks The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the UI experience in which you can drag and drop most of the transformation. Sometimes, we have issues with the solution's stability and need to restart it for…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product is developer-friendly."
"It's highly scalable. It takes upon itself the Redshift scalability, so it's very good."
"The loading of data is the most valuable feature of Matillion ETL."
"The simplicity of this tool is nice. It has a good graphical user interface. You can also do a lot of generic stuff in the tool. If there is good connectivity to a cloud database, such as Snowflake, and you can have a lot of Snowflake functionality in the tool."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The technical support treats us well. They already have a support portal, and they are responsive, which helps."
"Matillion ETL has great Git integration that is perfect and convenient to use."
"It is pretty user-friendly, even for people who aren't super technical."
"The new version with the Productivity Cloud is very simple. It's easy to use, navigate, and understand."
 

Cons

"The solution must add more Python-based implementations."
"The tool's lineage is very weak."
"There are certain functions that are available in other ETL tools which are still not present in Matillion ETL. It would be good to have more features."
"Unlike Snowflake which automatically takes care of upgrading to the latest version and includes additional features, with Matillion ETL we need to do this ourselves."
"Sometimes, we have issues with the solution's stability and need to restart it for three weeks or more."
"The improvement area could be possible if the tool provides better integration capabilities with other ecosystems, including governance tools or data cataloging tools, as it is currently an area where the solution is lacking."
"The current version is a bit more limited because it's on a virtual machine, and everything executes on that one virtual machine."
"Performance can be improved for efficiency, and it can be made faster."
"In the next release, we would like to have connections to more databases."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution’s pricing is affordable."
"The absence of licensing commitments makes it easy to experiment with the tool, and if we decide it's not suitable, we can simply stop the ETL instance and cease incurring charges."
"The cost of the solution is high and could be reduced."
"Matillion ETL has a pay-as-you-go pricing model of a few dollars per hour of runtime."
"The solution is very cheap. You're paying $2.50 an hour and if you set your service up, which you can do, you're not getting charged. Currently, our ETL process is just an overnight process that runs for about an hour. I can start and stop my server just for an hour if I want to and spent $2.50 a day for an ETL solution. There are no additional costs."
"The price of Matillion ETL is reasonable."
"I think it is cost conscious. It used to be very cheap and they have more recently bumped up the pricing, so it is competitive now."
"It was very easy to purchase through the AWS Marketplace, but it was also expensive."
"Matillion ETL is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Insurance Company
13%
Computer Software Company
7%
Healthcare Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for dbt?
It is cheap because dbt is open source. If you compare the pay-per-service of Dbt with the open source option you can manage. We are managing the solution, when we were acquiring service from them....
What needs improvement with dbt?
SQL statements that beyond DML, are not possible. Currently, they are not possible in Dbt. Having more features in SQL statements will support us. Another issue is the terms of data ingestion becau...
What is your primary use case for dbt?
We use the solution to deal with data transformations inside different organizations.
What do you like most about Matillion ETL?
The new version with the Productivity Cloud is very simple. It's easy to use, navigate, and understand.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Matillion ETL?
While pricing can be an issue compared to other solutions, Matillion Data Productivity Cloud offers discounts and special deals, especially when dealing with high-volume clients or fewer existing c...
What needs improvement with Matillion ETL?
There are problems with GCP connectivity. Specifically, connections to BigQuery for extracting information are complex, and the optimization of the extraction process requires improvements. I raise...
 

Also Known As

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Matillion ETL for Redshift, Matillion ETL for Snowflake, Matillion ETL for BigQuery
 

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