Instant Pentaho Data Integration Kitchen

Sergio Ramazzina

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781849696906
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Data Mining
• Index: Computer Science

In Detail

Pentaho PDI is a modern, powerful, and easy-to-use ETL system that lets you develop ETL processes with simplicity. Explore and gain the experience and skills that you need to run processes from the command line or schedule them by using an extensive description and a good set of samples.

Instant Pentaho Data Integration Kitchen How-to will help you to understand the correct way to deal with PDI command line tools. We start with a recipe about how to configure your memory requirements to run your processes effectively and then move forward with a set of recipes that show you the different ways to start PDI processes.

We start with a recap about how transformations and jobs are designed using spoon and then move forward to configure memory requirements to properly run your processes from the command line.

We dive into the various flags that control the logging system by specifying the logging output and the log verbosity. We focus and deliver all the knowledge you require to run the ETL processes using command line tools with ease and in a proficient manner.

Approach

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. A practical guide with easy-to-follow recipes helping developers to quickly and effectively collect data from disparate sources such as databases, files, and applications, and turn the data into a unified format that is accessible and relevant to end users.

Who this book is for

Any IT professional working on PDI and is a valid support for either learning how to use the command line tools efficiently or for going deeper on some aspects of the command line tools to help you work better.

Instant Pentaho Data Integration Kitchen

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Instant Pentaho Data Integration Kitchen

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Credits

Author

Sergio Ramazzina

Reviewer

Joel Latino

Acquisition Editor

Erol Staveley

Commissioning Editor

Shreerang Deshpande

Technical Editor

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Copy Editor

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Project Coordinator

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Proofreader

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Production Coordinator

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Cover Work

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Cover Image

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About the Author

Sergio Ramazzina is a software architect/trainer with over 20 years of experience working on a large number of projects for banks and major Italian companies as well as designing complex enterprise solutions in Java/JavaEE and Ruby. He started using Pentaho products from the very beginning (late 2003), gaining vast experience by deploying Pentaho as an open source, standalone BI solution. He also deeply integrated Pentaho as the analytics engine of choice in other applications he designed. Starting from 2009, based on his experience in the Java/JavaEE world and because of his appreciation for the open source world and its principles, he began participating actively as a contributor to some Pentaho projects, such as JPivot, Saiku, CDF, and CDA, and he has achieved the title of Pentaho Active Contributor.

In late 2010, he founded Serasoft, a young Italian consulting company specialized in the design and delivery of open source business intelligence solutions, and he started participating as a BI architect and Pentaho expert on a wide number of projects where open source BI and Pentaho were the main heroes. He is also the CTO of Athilab (Athirat Innovation Lab), sharing his experience in the design and delivery of high-value innovative enterprise solutions. He is always looking for innovative solutions that can help users make their work more efficient. He is also passionate about skiing, tennis, and photography.

About the Reviewer

Joel Latino was born in Ponte de Lima, Portugal, in 1989. He has been working in the IT industry since 2010, mostly as a software developer and BI developer.

He started his career at Xpand-IT—a Portuguese company specialized in strategic planning, consulting, implementation, and the maintenance of enterprise software that is fully adapted to the customer's needs—and earned his graduate degree in Informatics Engineering at the School of Technology and Management of the Viana do Castelo Polytechnic Institute.

Joel mainly focuses on open source web technology, databases, and business intelligence, and has some fascination with mobile technologies. He is responsible for developing some plugins to Pentaho Data Integration, such as Android and Apple push notification steps.

I would like to thank my parents for supporting me throughout my career and endeavors.

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Preface

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) is an ETL tool that was born 10 years ago. Its creator, Matt Caster, celebrated the 10th anniversary of this product, originally named Kettle (you can read the celebratory post on Matt's blog at: http://www.ibridge.be/?p=211), this year on March 8th 2013. The term K. E. T. T. L. E. is an acronym that stands for Kettle Extraction Transformation Transport Load Environment. When Pentaho acquired Kettle, its name was changed to Pentaho Data Integration, but actually, many developers continue to call it by the old name: Kettle.

How the story began…

The history of Kettle began in 2001 when Matt Caster, Pentaho Data Integration's chief architect and creator of Kettle, was working as a BI consultant. He had the idea of writing his own ETL tool to have a better and cheaper way to transfer data from one place to another. He was looking for a different solution, something that was better than inventing ugly data warehouse solutions written in PL/SQL, VB, or Shell scripts. He spent two years doing a thorough analysis of the problem. Because he was busy all the time with his work as a consultant, he worked on this project either during the weekends or at night. A...

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