recall

← recall

ELT termacronym

extract, load, transform — load raw, transform in warehouse

Modern variant. Cheap warehouse storage (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) makes it viable to land raw data then transform with SQL. Tools: dbt, Fivetran. Better for analytics; ETL still common for OLTP-bound flows.

aliases: extract load transform

topics: data-pipelines, etl

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