The WALD stack is a modern, sustainable, cloud-based analytics platform consisting of four powerful open source technologies.
- Warehouse: Use of cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery or Databricks Lakehouse for data persistence.
- Airbyte: Open source data integration platform with a focus on extract and load processes, supports over 300 connectors.
- Lightdash: Open source business intelligence tool for creating metrics and dashboards.
- DBT: Open source tool for data transformation.
Advantages of the WALD stack:
- Sustainability: based on open source technologies, supported by an active developer community.
- Flexibility: Combination of warehouse, data integration, BI and transformation tools for different use cases.
- Scalability: Seamless scaling of data processing and analysis through cloud data platforms and tools such as DBT and Lightdash.
- Transparency: Lightdash’s user-friendly interface for analyzing, documenting and sharing data analyses.