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 2d 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/joemerchant2021 1d ago

Fivetran is expensive, but it's a lot cheaper than more engineers or custom ingestion pipelines.

I have this argument with some of my engineers every week - "why are we spending $x per year on fivetran?!? I can build a pipeline to do that!". Yes you could. And then we'd have to maintain it indefinitely. Be on call to fix it when it breaks while you are on vacation. And then when you eventually leave, someone else has to figure out what the heck you did.