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ETL Vs ELT

The document compares ETL and ELT data integration approaches. ETL extracts, transforms, and loads data to a target database, while ELT loads raw data directly into a data warehouse where transformations occur. While ETL has more maturity and supports compliance needs, ELT provides flexibility, scalability and cost benefits by leveraging data warehouse capabilities for transformations.

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ETL Vs ELT

The document compares ETL and ELT data integration approaches. ETL extracts, transforms, and loads data to a target database, while ELT loads raw data directly into a data warehouse where transformations occur. While ETL has more maturity and supports compliance needs, ELT provides flexibility, scalability and cost benefits by leveraging data warehouse capabilities for transformations.

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ETL vs ELT

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What’s the Difference?

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What is ETL?

Extract, transform, and load (ETL) is a data integration methodology


that extracts raw data from sources, transforms the data on a
secondary processing server, and then loads the data into a target
database.
What is ELT? DWH

Extract Transform
Load

ELT (extract, load, and transform) loads raw data directly into a
target data warehouse. Data cleansing, enrichment, and data
transformation all occur inside the data warehouse itself. Raw data
is stored indefinitely in the data warehouse, allowing for multiple
transformations.
What is ELT?

Cloud-based data warehouses offer near-endless storage


capabilities and scalable processing power. For example, platforms
like Amazon Redshift and Google Big Query make ELT pipelines
possible because of their incredible processing capabilities.
Maturity. ETL was developed first and has been in practice for more than two
decades. This means that there are more engineers with experience in ETL
implementations and more ETL tools in the marketplace to build data pipelines
within organizations.
Advantages
Compliance. ETL transforms data before it reaches its destination. When
companies are subject to data privacy regulations such as GDPR, ETL allows
them to remove, mask, or encrypt sensitive data before it's loaded to the data
warehouse to ensure compliance.

Frequent maintenance. ETL data pipelines handle both extraction and


transformation. But they must undergo refactors if analysts require different data types or if the
source systems start to produce data with Drawbacks deviating formats and schemas.

Higher upfront cost. Defining business logic and transformations can increase
the scope of a data integration project.
High speed. ELT allows for all of the data to go into the system immediately, and
from there, users can determine the exact data they need to both transform
and analyse.

Lower cost. Requires a less-powerful server for data transformation and

Advantages takes advantage of resources already in the warehouse. This results in cost
savings and resource efficiencies.

Flexibility. Analysts no longer must determine what insights and data types they
need in advance but can perform transformations on the data as needed in the
warehouse.

Security gaps. Storing all the data and making it accessible to various users and
applications come with security risks. Companies must take steps to ensure
their target systems are secure by properly masking and
Drawbacks
encrypting data.

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Increased latency. The need to continually transform data slows down the
overall time it takes to perform queries/analysis.

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