ETL vs ELT — Why the 'T' Moved to the End in the Cloud Era

The post explores the evolution from ETL to ELT in the cloud era, highlighting how cloud-native data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift enable ELT by offering elastic compute, cheap storage, and built-in parallelism. It discusses the advantages and use cases of both ETL and ELT, and introduces DBConvert Streams, a platform capable of handling both approaches with features like auto-schema recreation and cross-database compatibility. The post provides insights into when to choose ETL or ELT based on data quality, compliance, and flexibility needs.