dbt V2

dbt Fusion Rust engine, dbt Cloud 2024+.

Definition

dbt Fusion engine Rust offers incremental compilation (millions of models), in-memory state, native semantic layer queries, integrated local IDE (VSCode extension). dbt Cloud adds orchestration, observability, governance, semantic layer API, Cell-based ETL (Transform Data Labs acquisition). 80,000+ teams using dbt.

Origin

dbt Labs (ex-Fishtown Analytics), founded 2016 by Tristan Handy, dbt Fusion engine announced at Coalesce 2024 conference.

Usage

Standard for SQL-based transformations in data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks). Competes with Coalesce, SQLMesh.

Related terms

• dbt-core — OSS Python parent.
• dbt Cloud — SaaS commercial.
• Semantic layer — feature flagship.