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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)

Preface

Pentaho Data Integration (also known as Kettle) is an engine, along with a suite of tools, responsible for the processes of Extracting, Transforming, and Loading, better known as the ETL processes. Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) not only serves as an ETL tool, but it's also used for other purposes, such as migrating data between applications or databases, exporting data from databases to flat files, data cleansing, and much more. PDI has an intuitive, graphical, drag and drop design environment, and its ETL capabilities are powerful. However, getting started with PDI can be difficult and confusing. This book provides the guidance needed to overcome that difficulty, by covering the key features of PDI. Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE explains the new interactive features of the graphical designer—Spoon, and its revamped look and feel. It also covers the newest features of the tool including Transformations and Jobs executors and the invaluable metadata injection capability.

The content of the book is based on PDI 8 Community Edition (CE). However, it can be used with the Enterprise Edition (EE) as well. Besides, if you are currently working with an earlier version of the tool, you should know that most of the content is also valid for PDI 6 and PDI 7.

By the end of the book, not only will you have experimented with all kinds of examples, but will also have gained the knowledge about developing useful, portable, reusable, and well-designed processes.