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Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition

By : Carina Roldán
Book Image

Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition

By: Carina Roldán

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration(PDI) is an intuitive and graphical environment packed with drag-and-drop design and powerful Extract-Tranform-Load (ETL) capabilities. This book shows and explains the new interactive features of Spoon, the revamped look and feel, and the newest features of the tool including transformations and jobs Executors and the invaluable Metadata Injection capability. We begin with the installation of PDI software and then move on to cover all the key PDI concepts. Each of the chapter introduces new features, enabling you to gradually get practicing with the tool. First, you will learn to do all kind of data manipulation and work with simple plain files. Then, the book teaches you how you can work with relational databases inside PDI. Moreover, you will be given a primer on data warehouse concepts and you will learn how to load data in a data warehouse. During the course of this book, you will be familiarized with its intuitive, graphical and drag-and-drop design environment. By the end of this book, you will learn everything you need to know in order to meet your data manipulation requirements. Besides, your will be given best practices and advises for designing and deploying your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Installing PDI

In order to work with PDI, you need to install the software.

The only prerequisite to install the tool is to have JRE 8.0 installed. If you don't have it, download it from www.javasoft.com and install it before proceeding.

Following are the instructions to install the PDI software, irrespective of the operating system you may be using:

  1. Go to the Download page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Data Integration.
  1. Choose the newest stable release. At this time, it is 8.0, as shown in the following screenshot:
PDI on SourceForge.net
  1. Download the available zip file, which will serve you for all platforms.
  1. Unzip the downloaded file in a folder of your choice, as, for example, c:/util/kettle or /home/pdi_user/kettle.

And that's all. You have installed the tool in just a few minutes.

The version of PDI that you just installed corresponds to the Community Edition (CE) of the tool. The book, however, can be also used for learning to use the Enterprise Edition (EE). Excepting for minor differences if you work with repositories, most of the examples in the book should work without changes. Also, if for any reason you have to use a previous version of PDI, the good news are that most of the content explained here also applies to PDI 6 and PDI 7.