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Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Kettle

TalkinGermanat LinuxTag 2006 · on Wednesday, 2006-05-03· [data-engineering]

Overview of Kettle, an open-source (LGPL) Java ETL tool for building and distributing data warehouses, covering its four modules (Spoon GUI, Pan batch executor, Chef job designer, Kitchen batch job runner), metadata-driven transformations, ~35 transformation steps and ~10 job types, broad database support (MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, etc.), and optimized features for inserts, batch updates, slowly changing dimensions (Kimball Types I–III) and junk dimensions. Demonstration of Kettle in a Data Warehouse build, description of its plugin mechanism (example: SAP R/3 connector by Proratio), project status (downloads, contributors) and future development including Pentaho integration and commercial support.

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