Fivetran to acquire Census

All of these tools are insanely expensive (from my own experience at companies that have used them). I understand it, since building your own pipeline to handle the kind of throughput analytics takes is expensive and time consuming. Business leaders want the visibility but don&#x27;t want to redirect dev resources to build and maintain these creaky data pipelines. It is the perfect market of high-value and low tolerance for build (on the build or buy spectrum).<p>But I am not going to pay $1000&#x2F;month as a bootstrap startup. What open source alternatives exist that can be run on basic hardware?

This indeed sounds like closing the loop, congrats to the team! Boris’s announcement is pretty interesting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getcensus.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;census-joins-forces-with-fivetran" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getcensus.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;census-joins-forces-with-five...</a>

Congrats to everyone. Some of the smartest and kindest people in data coming together!

Seems like a no-brainer. I wonder if they ever started to build these capabilities in house; I&#x27;m sure they already had so much of the tooling available.

Congrats to both Census and Fivetran. Census has an amazing product and very good people. Excited to see what&#x27;s coming next from y&#x27;all

Anyone hear rumors of how much they were acquired for?

Is Fivetran to Fortran like what C++ is to C?

What does this actually mean for customers? Is are we going to have to rebuild our Census syncs in Fivetran or will the product continue to run as-is? Will plans &#x2F; pricing change?

Congrats to the Census team and the Fivetran team!

Fivetran has been great. But in this new ai world. Something like dragster + dlt and sling. You can have your own fivetran developed in house. I haven’t dove too much into reverse etl- but it would be awesome to see a dtl like open source tool for reverse etl.

Fivetran should’ve done this a long time ago. I think that both etl and reverse etl is going open source route. With this ai world we live in now. You just need dagster or temporal - and a few lines of python.

This page is a great example of why FCP perf is important. It took a scenery long for any content to appear, and I bounced off the page pretty quickly a few times thinking it was down.<p>I can’t be the only one

Still missing a critical piece - ETL. If they acquire it instead of just asking people to use dbt, they have (kinda) the full stack solution.

Always wondered FT and Census might come into the each other&#x27;s territory. Good to see both are merging forces together now!

Congrats to the teams! Like others have said, your pricing ends up killing adoption for my company. We ended up self-hosting Airbyte. It ain&#x27;t perfect but at least we&#x27;re not paying $10&#x2F;GB to replicate data within our own VPC.

there&#x27;s going to be more consolidation in data tooling this year. Many of the stand alone tools raised too much money and no one wants to buy 5 really expensive tools to assemble a &quot;data stack&quot; anymore.<p>if you want a data platform that&#x27;s built to work as one cohesive unit, we got you: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.definite.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.definite.app&#x2F;</a><p>Definite has a data lake, ETL, and BI in one app.

not a big fan of fivetran&#x27;s pricing