--- title: "ETL vs ELT — Why the 'T' Moved to the End in the Cloud Era" url: https://daily.dev/posts/etl-vs-elt-why-the-t-moved-to-the-end-in-the-cloud-era-nrlvci7pw source_url: https://dbconvert.com/blog/etl-vs-elt-2/ type: article source: "DBconvert" published: 2025-05-23T19:37:08.519Z updated: 2025-05-23T19:37:20.967Z tags: ["cloud", "database", "data-engineering", "etl"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 4 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ETL vs ELT — Why the 'T' Moved to the End in the Cloud Era **[DBconvert](https://daily.dev/sources/dbconvert)** · 4 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The post explores the evolution from ETL to ELT in the cloud era, highlighting how cloud-native data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift enable ELT by offering elastic compute, cheap storage, and built-in parallelism. It discusses the advantages and use cases of both ETL and ELT, and introduces DBConvert Streams, a platform capable of handling both approaches with features like auto-schema recreation and cross-database compatibility. The post provides insights into when to choose ETL or ELT based on data quality, compliance, and flexibility needs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#data-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/data-engineering), [#etl](https://daily.dev/tags/etl) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/etl-vs-elt-why-the-t-moved-to-the-end-in-the-cloud-era-nrlvci7pw)