ETL vs ELT: Considering the Advancement of Data Warehouses

ETL stands for Extract, Transform, Load. It has been a traditional way to manage analytics pipelines for decades. With the advent of modern cloud-based data warehouses, such as BigQuery or Redshift, the traditional concept of ETL is changing towards ELT – when you're running transformations right in the data warehouse. Let's see why it's happening, what it means to have ETL vs ELT, and what we can expect in the future. ETL arose to solve a problem of providing businesses with clean and ready-to-analyze data.