dbt-risingwave

A RisingWave adapter plugin for dbt.

RisingWave is a cloud-native streaming database that uses SQL as the interface language. It is designed to reduce the complexity and cost of building real-time applications. https://www.risingwave.com

dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications. Use dbt for data transformations in RisingWave

Getting started

The package has not been published to PyPI, please install it via git.

1. Install dbt-risingwave

python3 -m pip install dbt-risingwave

2. Get RisingWave running

Please follow this guide to set up a functional RisingWave instance.

3. Configure the dbt profile file

The profile file is located in ~/.dbt/profiles.yml. Here's an example of how to use it with RisingWave.

default:
  outputs:
    dev:
      type: risingwave
      host: 127.0.0.1
      user: root
      pass: ""
      dbname: dev
      port: 4566
      schema: public
  target: dev

4. Run dbt debug to check whether the configuration is correct.

Models

The dbt models for managing data transformations in RisingWave are similar to typical dbt sql models. The main differences are the materializations. We customized the materializations to fit the data processing model of RisingWave.

Materializations	INFO
materialized_view	Create a materialized view. This materialization corresponds to the incremental one in dbt. To use this materialization, add {{ config(materialized='materialized_view') }} to your model SQL files.
materializedview	(Deprecated) only for backward compatibility, use materialized_view instead
ephemeral	This materialization uses common table expressions in RisingWave under the hood. To use this materialization, add {{ config(materialized='ephemeral') }} to your model SQL files.
table	Create a table. To use this materialization, add {{ config(materialized='table') }} to your model SQL files.
view	Create a view. To use this materialization, add {{ config(materialized='view') }} to your model SQL files.
incremental	Use materialized_view instead if possible, since RisingWave is designed to use a materialized view to manage data transformation in an incremental way. From v1.7.3, dbt-risingwave supports incremental model to give users better control of when to update their model. This model will update the table in a batch way incrementally.
source	Define a source {{ config(materialized='source') }}. You need to provide your create source statement as a whole in this model.
table_with_connector	Define a table with a connector {{ config(materialized='table_with_connector') }}. You need to provide your create table with connector statement as a whole in this model. Because dbt table has its own semantics, RisingWave uses table_with_connector to distinguish itself from it. The connector is optional if you just want to define a table without anything connector.
sink	Define a sink {{ config(materialized='sink') }}. You need to provide your create sink statement as a whole in this model.

To learn how to use, you can check RisingWave's official example dbt_rw_nexmark.

DBT RUN behavior

• dbt run: only create new models (if not exists) without dropping any models.
• dbt run --full-refresh: drop models and create the new ones. This command can make sure your streaming pipelines are consistent with what you define in dbt models.

Graph operators

Graph operators is useful when you want to only recreate a subset of your models.

dbt run --select "my_model+"         # select my_model and all children
dbt run --select "+my_model"         # select my_model and all parents
dbt run --select "+my_model+"         # select my_model, and all of its parents and children

Tests

All items below have been tested against the latest RisingWave daily build version.

• Offical example jaffle_shop is tested.
• RisingWave offical example dbt_rw_nexmark is tested.