It’s 2024. In the last decade, we’ve seen manual file sorting become ETL, then ETL became ELT and ELT became dbt. But we still use spreadsheets in our boardrooms, and flat files are still filling critical business workflows.

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MariaDB is an offshoot of the MySQL relational database management platform, designed to give users greater big data management capabilities and scalability in a fully open-source format. For everything from optimized data warehouse formatting to unified data management, a dedicated MariaDB ETL tool is the best way to move forward with analyzing and managing your data in this environment and beyond.

Fivetran and Stitch Data are two of the top contenders in the great ETL tool debate. But both platforms have their own sets of advantages and drawbacks. Choosing the right ETL platform for your business depends on several factors unique to your company, such as the types of data you need to analyze and the business intelligence (BI) you expect to glean from it. Which of these ETL/ELT platforms is the right option to add to your data stack?