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Overview

SDF has the ability to connect with many databases, and supports numerous SQL dialects. Are you looking for an integration that’s not yet supported? Let us know by giving us feebdack here Use the below feature matrix to determine if SDF is right for you
StatusMeaning
🟢Supported
🟡Coming Soon
🔴Coming Later

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Feature Matrix

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Database Support

SDF is working to build parity with common data warehouse development patterns including Jinja macro pre-processing, materialization strategies, multiple environment support, and more.
FeatureSDF DBRedshiftSnowflakeBigQueryTrinoDatabricks
SQL Dialect Support🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟡
Column-level Lineage🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
Impact Analysis🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟡
Macros & Jinja🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
Zero-Copy Environments🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟡
Table Provider🟡🟢🟢🟢🔴🟡
Run & Execution🟢🟡🟢🟢🔴🟡
Advanced Materialization🟢🔴🟢🟡🔴🟡
Database Auth🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🟡
Local Execution🟢🔴🟡🔴🟢🔴
When we say “SQL Dialect Support”, we mean support for SDF’s rich static analysis toolset - including compilation, lineage, dependency analysis, and more.

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Authentication Support

SDF Supports authentication to one or more databases simultaneously through integrations & credentials. To check the current status of all credentials held by SDF, run sdf auth status.
Authentication MethodSupported
AWS Keypair🟢
AWS SSO🟢
AWS ARN🟢
Snowflake User/Pass🟢
Snowflake SSO🟡
Snowflake Key Pair🟢
BigQuery Service Accounts🟢
BigQuery Application Default Credentials🔴
Redshift JDBC🔴
Trino JDBC🔴
Trino JDBC🔴
Spark JDBC🔴

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Orchestration Support

SDF Supports simple orchestration. Commands like compile & run are executed in dependency order, allowing for simple orchestration via cron jobs, or GitHub Actions. For more advanced orchestration needs, SDF recommends Dagster.
OrchestratorSupportedDocumentation
Github🟢here
Dagster🟢here
Airflow🟡Coming Soon

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Platforms

SDF is currently supported on the following platforms. The executable is small (<75mb), but heavily parallelized. As such, SDF’s resource consumption is dependent entirely on your data processing requirements.
PlatformsSupported
Linux Intel X86-64✔️
Linux Arm AARCH-64✔️
Apple Intel X86-64✔️
Apple Arm AARCh-64✔️
Windows Intel X86-64❌
Web-Assembly❌
For a complete list of releases, please see the official GitHub releases page.
SDF is hardware-optimized. For best performance, download the version that matches your chipset.