Calder Group Inc

Pentaho aquired Kettle ETL tool. I never used Kettle myself. I only saw it in action. It was pretty nice. Much better than something I would have developed myself. Kettle is all java, which makes it easy to extend.

There are other open source ETL tools out there. Maybe there is a diamond in the rough there, not much activity in the last year or two on all the ones I checked out.

In addition to batch ETL actively I would love to see an ETL tool to pump data in small batches or as a constant stream of messages. That would be a useful feature for populating search collections, populating aggregates grouped on slowly changing dimensions, or keeping legacy/new systems in-sync before a cutover.

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