@karmbahh - good to know. I've used Kettle for about 9 months in production and so far its been pretty solid - but we are not going that far off the beaten path

@karmbahh - good to know. I've used Kettle for about 9 months in production and so far its been pretty solid - but we are not going that far off the beaten path for most things. Its a big app, but at least there is documentation and some great users who have been very helpful and the codebase is by and large very logically laid out. We do use the Adaptive Execution Layer - but so far not with spark (we use it with our own processing engine) - its working well for us and its great we can switch engines as needed. re: UI. I like a lot of new look and feel but I can see how it did lose some visual semantics and i can imagine any long term user would find the changes frustrating. I guess with coming to the tool much later, this has been less of an issue for me and we teak the presentation for our own workflows and plugins anyhow. For us Kettle/Pentaho PDI is a great open source project but it will definitely be interesting to see how things evolve now Hitachi has acquired Pentaho.