Data Engineers

DataOps & CI/CD for the Modern Data Stack

Every dbt PR run on a legacy warehouse costs real credits. Every environment clone takes hours. HatiData gives you git-driven environments with per-second billing — built for the speed of modern data engineering.

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THE PROBLEM

What You're Dealing With

Environment Cloning Takes Hours

Need a staging environment? Clone your production warehouse. Wait 2-4 hours. Pay for the storage. Repeat for every feature branch.

CI Runs Burn Credits

Every dbt PR run spins a full warehouse cluster. At 50+ PRs/week, your CI pipeline costs more than production workloads.

60-Second Tax on dbt Models

Each dbt model execution is billed at a 60-second minimum. A 3-second model? Billed for 60. Multiply by hundreds of models per run.

THE HATIDATA FIX

How HatiData Solves It

Instant Environment Cloning

Iceberg metadata makes environment cloning near-instant. No data copying. A feature branch environment is ready in seconds, not hours.

Per-Second CI Billing

dbt runs are billed per-second. A 3-second model costs 3 seconds. No 60-second minimum. Your CI budget drops 90%.

dbt-Native Workflows

pip install dbt-hatidata. Update profiles.yml. Run dbt build. Same models, same tests, same macros. Zero refactoring.

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Legacy Warehouse	HatiData
Environment Clone	2-4 hours (full copy)	Seconds (Iceberg metadata)
CI Cost per PR	$5-20 (60s billing)	$0.10-0.50 (per-second)
dbt Compatibility	Native	Native adapter
Min Billing per Model	60 seconds	Per-second (actual)
Environments	Manual provisioning	Git-driven, instant
Storage Format	Proprietary	Open (Apache Iceberg)

CODE EXAMPLES

Drop-In Integration

name: dbt CI
on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  dbt-test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Install dbt
        run: pip install dbt-hatidata
      - name: Run dbt
        env:
          HATIDATA_HOST: hatidata.internal
          HATIDATA_PORT: 5439
        run: |
          dbt deps
          dbt build --target ci
          dbt test