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Customer Reviews
Consultant in Information Technology and Services
Advanced user of Pentaho Data IntegrationPentaho Data Integration (aka Kettle) is a tool included in the Pentaho suite that we use in our Smart Cities projects to obtain data from various data sources. It has a large number of tools already built for Input, Ouput, Transform ... that allow developers to save a lot of time. Its use is easy even for inexperienced users.
If we want to have support with the Pentaho suite we should not use its Community version (free), but in some Smart Cities specifications of our clients they require a free and open source tool with associated support.
The Pentaho suite has a Community version that is free and free software, so our recommendation is to download it and test it to verify that this tool meets your requirements. For our part, we recommend it as we use it practically whenever we need to extract data from a data source quickly and easily.
PDI allows us to obtain data from various data sources such as databases, excel files, csv, big data / hadoop type databases and use preconfigured tools so that obtaining this data is simple and parameterizable. Other languages such as python require the writing of complete modules, with PDI the implementation and debugging are integrated through Plug & Play tools.
