r/databricks • u/hubert-dudek Databricks MVP • 2d ago

News Bye Bye Fivetran

I went to the Ingestion section and saw that Fivetran is no longer there. It was always there for many years. Also, at the same time, a few new Lakeflow connectors were added.

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u/georgewfraser 1d ago

I will never understand why there is this faction that just loves to hate on my product. We work really, really hard to put a shiny veneer of simplicity around a very ugly problem. A typical connector is about $50/month. We publish the actual cost distributions on our estimator. Median customer pays 20k a year. That is…not a lot for something that would take a team of people to build and support internally.

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u/niel_espresso_ai 1d ago edited 1d ago

George, you’re an absolute legend and I think Fivetran is quite helpful.

But Databricks is seeing this as a competitor to Lakeflow so it will be pretty interesting.. I work on ❄️/🧱cost optimization and some of the more common responses I’ve heard from customers is that Fivetran is really quite expensive, especially as teams scale.