Open source alternatives to dbt

One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what dbt does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What dbt does

SQL models that transform warehouse datacore
Dependencies and run order between modelscore
Data tests
Generated docs and lineage
Incremental models
Macros and packages

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
rockySQL transformation engine that type-checks pipelines and tracks column lineage	Replaces it81%	311+2	613	4 days ago	100%	Uses the terminal	Apache-2.0
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Generated docs and lineage. Not shown: Macros and packages.See the evidence SQL models that transform warehouse datacoreYesRocky checks your SQL models before they run Dependencies and run order between modelscoreYesyour models and their DAG Data testsYesChecks and declarative [[tests]] Generated docs and lineagePartlyColumn-level lineage for PR review Incremental modelsYesstrategy = "incremental" Macros and packagesNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.

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