dbt Labs now out there on Databricks Associate Join

The analytics engineering firm, dbt Labs, has introduced that dbt Cloud is now out there on Databricks Associate Join. This brings customers a risk-free, quick, and frictionless technique to expertise dbt Cloud on the lakehouse.

Via this integration, Databricks customers will be capable to rapidly provision a brand new dbt Cloud trial that’s already pre-connected to their Databricks account. 

Based on dbt Labs, that is useful for purchasers who wish to rapidly get a really feel for what dbt Labs and Databricks can obtain collectively by way of a streamlined and pre-configured workflow. 

“The dbt Group has lengthy had curiosity in a joint answer with Databricks, and due to this accelerating partnership, we’re now in a position to ship a turnkey expertise to Databricks clients trying to expertise dbt Cloud,” mentioned Margaret Francis, chief product officer at dbt Labs. “It’s a pure match – with dbt because the transformation framework operating on prime of a unified lakehouse, knowledge groups have entry to an open platform with extremely deep neighborhood assist.”

This information comes following a collection of milestones for each corporations, comparable to Databricks’ improvement of a devoted dbt-Databricks adapter and gaining greater than 1,000 members of the Databricks and Spark channel with the dbt Group Slack.

“dbt operating on Databricks has made modeling accessible on to enterprise analysts. All of it lives in a single place and it’s all entry managed, so we don’t have to fret about writing to a separate knowledge warehouse or a separate cloud… Having everybody in the identical surroundings and accessing the identical model of the identical knowledge, each time, is large,” mentioned Filippe Felisola Caso, enterprise analytics supervisor on the Brazilian prop-tech firm, Loft.