Sdf

SDF was a SQL comprehension technology from SDF Labs, which dbt Labs acquired. The listing URL is now a page on the dbt Labs site announcing that SDF has joined forces with dbt Labs, with the stated aim of bringing the most advanced SQL understanding into dbt. SQL comprehension means a tool actually understands the queries it handles, rather than treating them as text. The dbt Labs articles linked from the page explain three levels of SQL comprehension and the technologies behind them. They describe SDF running under the hood of a next generation dbt engine, with the goals of making dbt much faster and more cost efficient and enabling features such as true column level lineage. The page links to the press release, a webinar with the dbt founder and the SDF co founder, and related whitepapers. The audience is analytics engineers and data teams that build and maintain SQL transformation pipelines in dbt. The SDF page itself lists no price. The dbt platform's published plans are Developer at no cost for one seat, Starter at $100 per user per month, and custom priced Enterprise and Enterprise Plus tiers. Add ons are priced separately, including dbt State at $0.094 per daily active target table, and dbt Wizard, an analytics engineering agent billed by model tokens.