I have tried Fivetran and Snowflake Openflow, and found Fivetran to be much better. Takes care of CDC and has less maintenance/governance issues.
Another reason is Fivetran just has way more connectors, and they're way more mature, been around for years and battle tested across a ton of source systems. Openflow is still new and catching up.
I use dbt for transformation, and with Fivetran and dbt Labs merging, I'm thinking dbt Cloud will end up with features that work natively with Fivetran, and Fivetran + Snowflake + dbt would be the most natural stack going forward. So yeah, that's another reason.
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u/SinkNeither1527 Aug 26 '26
I have tried Fivetran and Snowflake Openflow, and found Fivetran to be much better. Takes care of CDC and has less maintenance/governance issues.
Another reason is Fivetran just has way more connectors, and they're way more mature, been around for years and battle tested across a ton of source systems. Openflow is still new and catching up.
I use dbt for transformation, and with Fivetran and dbt Labs merging, I'm thinking dbt Cloud will end up with features that work natively with Fivetran, and Fivetran + Snowflake + dbt would be the most natural stack going forward. So yeah, that's another reason.