MOmooreds·Feb 24, 2025Submission
Pentaho Data Integration ( ETL) a.k.a. Kettle
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Pentaho Data Integration ( ETL ) a.k.a Kettle
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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5 sourcesI think there's substantial value in replacing expensive system components with free alternatives. Things like FusionAuth / https://fusionauth.io/ for user identity (full disclosure, I'm an employee) and Pentaho Kettle https://github.com/pentaho/pentaho-kettle for ETL and data transformations can help.
It is important to recognize the value of developer time too, though. There's a cost in dev time for setting up a "free" project.
That's why I think that any open source project that gets too popular will have to have a cloud vendor strategy, otherwise they'll get done to them what AWS did to Elastic Search.
I also thought it was interesting that the author mentioned support for the various application libraries. I know that there have been several "tip" type applications (gittip, gitcoin.co) that try to align incentives and allow open sour
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ce developers to make a living.
for enterprise ETL - there is also kettle which has been around for a long time- which has a desktop and web authoring client. https://github.com/pentaho/pentaho-kettle
In Rete – JavaScript framework for node-based visual programmingKettle - the open source component of Hitachi Pentaho Data Integration is worth looking at, has some functionality for this (you can join sources and insert joined data back into master) and its pretty easy to extend to meet requirements. Its Apache licensed, with great commercial support if you need it, and can be found here:
https://github.com/pentaho/pentaho-kettle
We are small shop but it is a key part of our data workflows. We also found spoon the UI workflow builder to be very helpful for building workflows - since its allowed team members who were not strong in Java to build workflows that they need. Last but not least and a key decider in our adoption is the community is super friendly and very helpful. Something we thought would take months got implemented in a weekend thanks to quick feedback. Perhaps worth a look.
In Mara: A lightweight ETL framework, halfway between plain scripts and AirflowApparently they are using Pentaho. See screenshots starting at slide 7: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1510163-cse-presenta...
Pentaho Data Integration Kettle: http://www.pentaho.com/product/data-integration , https://github.com/pentaho/pentaho-kettle/
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