What is Dataform?
Dataform helps you manage all data processes in your cloud data warehouse. Publish tables, write data tests and automate complex SQL workflows in a few minutes, so you can spend more time on analytics and less time managing infrastructure.
Dataform is a tool in the Business Intelligence category of a tech stack.
Dataform is an open source tool with 641 GitHub stars and 110 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Dataform's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Dataform?
Companies
11 companies reportedly use Dataform in their tech stacks, including Lightspeed, AlphaSense, and Dreamdata.
Developers
26 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Dataform.
Dataform Integrations
JavaScript, GitHub, Git, PostgreSQL, and Google BigQuery are some of the popular tools that integrate with Dataform. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Dataform.
Dataform's Features
- Version ontrol
- Scheduling
- Notifications and logging
- Assertions
- Web based development environment
- Alerting
- Incremental tables
- Packages
- Reusable code snippets
- Unit tests
- Data tests
Dataform Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Dataform?
dbt
dbt is a transformation workflow that lets teams deploy analytics code following software engineering best practices like modularity, portability, CI/CD, and documentation. Now anyone who knows SQL can build production-grade data pipelines.
Slick
It is a modern database query and access library for Scala. It allows you to work with stored data almost as if you were using Scala collections while at the same time giving you full control over when a database access happens and which data is transferred.
NumPy
Besides its obvious scientific uses, NumPy can also be used as an efficient multi-dimensional container of generic data. Arbitrary data-types can be defined. This allows NumPy to seamlessly and speedily integrate with a wide variety of databases.
Pandas
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more.
Tableau
Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. Connect to almost any database, drag and drop to create visualizations, and share with a click.
