dbt vs SQLMesh: An Honest Comparison on a Self-Hosted Lakehouse
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. SQLMesh + Nessie + Trino + Iceberg with full virtual data environments is not clearly documented anywhere. You are reading the first person who built it end-to-end and wrote about it honestly. Most dbt vs SQLMesh articles compare marketing pages. This one is different. The two tools ran simultaneously on the same […]