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Elementary: Community vs Cloud
Detailed comparison of Elementary product offerings.
Elementary Cloud
Ideal for teams monitoring mission-critical data pipelines, requiring guaranteed uptime and reliability, short-time-to-value, advanced features, collaboration, and professional support. The solution is secure by design, and requires no access to your data from cloud.
Elementary Community
An open-source CLI tool you can deploy and orchestrate to send Slack alerts and self-host the Elementary report. It is best for data and analytics engineers that require basic observability capabilities or for evaluating features without vendor approval.
Features comparison
Community (OSS) | Elmentary Cloud | |
---|---|---|
Data monitoring and detection | ||
Automated freshness, volume and schema monitors | ❌ | ✅ |
In-pipeline data tests (via dbt) | ✅ | ✅ |
Data anomaly detection | ✅ | ✅ |
Custom SQL tests | ✅ | ✅ |
Jobs performance and run results | ✅ | ✅ |
Monitored data sets | dbt only | All tables |
Root cause and impact analysis | ||
Table-level lineage | ✅ | ✅ |
Column-level lineage | ❌ | ✅ |
Lineage to BI tools | ❌ | ✅ |
Coverage and configuration | ||
Configuration as code (dbt YAML) | ✅ | ✅ |
Add tests from UI | ❌ | ✅ |
🚧 Auto-tune configurations for improved accuracy | ❌ | ✅ |
🚧 Automated test recommendations | ❌ | ✅ |
Communication and collaboration | ||
Slack and MS Teams alerts | ✅ | ✅ |
Alert distribution rules, multiple destinations, custom formats | ❌ | ✅ |
Additional alert destinations: PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Webhook | ❌ | ✅ |
Alert actions | ❌ | ✅ |
Data catalog | ❌ | ✅ |
Data Health Score | ❌ | ✅ |
Incident management | ❌ | ✅ |
Deployment, security and service | ||
Deployment | Self hosted, CLI | Cloud service |
Multiple environments and data warehouses | ❌ | ✅ |
Secure by design - Elementary has no access to raw data | ❌ | ✅ |
Managed service - 99.9% uptime, no maintenance | ❌ | ✅ |
Social login with Google | ❌ | ✅ |
SSO using OKTA / OneLogin / AD | ❌ | ✅ |
Custom deployment options | ❌ | ✅ |
Role based access control | ❌ | ✅ |
Support SLA | Community support | 24 hours SLA |