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It's not in my experience performant but Pentaho is definitely ETL-for-dummies easy to use. Similar to your average user pivoting data in Excel rather than lea
by technofiend 8y ago
It's not in my experience performant but Pentaho is definitely ETL-for-dummies easy to use. Similar to your average user pivoting data in Excel rather than learning Python or R, sometimes having a tool with suboptimal performance is better than optimizing an adhoc or short term process.
- raihansaputra 8y agoYES. I just knew about Pentaho recently and it’s amazing. Sad that they just scrubbed off info about the free community version on their webpage, and to automate the jobs on the community version you need to do cron/Task Scheduler stuff outside of the app. I know it’s a limitation to make people jump ship to the paid version, but I just hope it’s integrated so I don’t have to think about setting up cron jobs to have automated ETLs and just have people responsible to create the jobs do the scheduling too.
- dgudkov 8y agoIf you're looking for a real ETL-for-dummies, take a look at my EasyMorph (https://easymorph.com https://easymorph.com). We've made a number of simplifications that specifically target "dummy" users, e.g. columns may mix values of different types (text, numbers, etc.).
- v4n4d1s 8y agoThanks for developing easymorph! Free version helped me through my bachelors degree. It's my go-to tool to introduce people to ETL and similar concepts.
- dgudkov 8y agoYou're welcome! Great to hear it happened to be of help :)
- technofiend 8y agoAnd it's a partner with Tableau? Yeah that sounds pretty good! Thanks for the tip.
- dgudkov 8y agoYes, we're partners with Tableau. Just returned from Tableau Conference 2018 in New Orleans where we had a booth.