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dbt and SQLMesh co-exist on self-hosted lakehouse via Nessie REST

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A technical comparison details the challenges and solutions encountered when running dbt and SQLMesh simultaneously on a self-hosted lakehouse environment. The author outlines a specific stack including PostgreSQL, SeaweedFS, Nessie, Trino, and Dremio, highlighting hardware constraints. A key blocker was Trino's inability to create views with native Nessie catalogs, which was overcome by utilizing Nessie's Iceberg REST catalog endpoint. AI

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RANK_REASON The article details a technical comparison and implementation of two data transformation tools on a specific infrastructure stack, akin to a case study or technical paper. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.1]

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dbt and SQLMesh co-exist on self-hosted lakehouse via Nessie REST

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  1. Towards AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Maroun Sader ·

    dbt vs SQLMesh: An Honest Comparison on a Self-Hosted Lakehouse

    <h4><em>Six phases of dbt. SQLMesh added on top. Same Nessie backend, same Iceberg tables, same bronze layer, provably identical gold layer. What I learned the hard way.</em></h4><p>SQLMesh + Nessie + Trino + Iceberg with full virtual data environments is not clearly documented a…

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