Move & transform
Fivetran, Airbyte, dbt, Dagster, Airflow — getting the data in and shaped.
Independent research · 14 tools · October 2026
The stack behind the warehouse.
Fivetran, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka — four separate line items from four separate vendors, each priced on a different metric. Every profile covers what the tool does and the pricing mechanic that decides the bill.
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The map
Two layers of data engineering
Fivetran, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka — four separate line items from four separate vendors, each priced on a different metric. Every profile covers what the tool does and the pricing mechanic that decides the bill.
Store & query
Snowflake, ClickHouse, Databricks, Trino, DuckDB — where it lands and how it is read.
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Airbyte
Airbyte is a ingestion product that connectors for hundreds of sources. This profile covers what it does, how it is priced, and where it stops being the right choice.
Apache Airflow
Apache Airflow is the long-standing open-source workflow orchestrator. This profile covers what it does, how it is operated, and where it stops being the right choice.
ClickHouse
ClickHouse is a analytics product that columnar store built for aggregation. This profile covers what it does, how it is priced, and where it stops being the right choice.
Confluent
Confluent is the commercial platform around Apache Kafka. This profile covers what it does, how it is priced, and where it stops being the right choice.
Dagster
Dagster is a orchestration product that asset-based scheduling for pipelines. This profile covers what it does, how it is priced, and where it stops being the right choice.
Databricks
Databricks is a unified analytics platform built on Apache Spark. This profile covers what it does, how it is priced, and where it stops being the right choice.