👉 ETL and ELT are three-phase process types of data processing that are used in data integration and data analytics. 👉 ETL stands for Extract, Transform, and Load. 👉 ELT stands for Extract, Load, and Transform. 👉 Both ETL and ELT use similar steps to process data. 👉 The key difference between these two is the fact that with ETL you have to first load the data into your database before it can be transformed, while with ELT you can just do the transformation without loading any data at all.