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The model works absolutely fine with structured data. In these kinds of applications, you usually connect different nodes on a canvas, each node representing a
by psv1 7y ago
The model works absolutely fine with structured data. In these kinds of applications, you usually connect different nodes on a canvas, each node representing a data source, join, transformation etc. and each connection represents the flow of data.
- Xophmeister 7y agoBut those nodes are going to be either relatively limited in their ability, highly specific, or just expose scripting tools; the linkage between nodes is trivial. Why waste time connecting all that up visually, when a good shell will do the job?
- psv1 7y agoI agree with this and I also prefer a programming language over a GUI. My point was that there isn't a limitation of GUI ETL tools that's specific to structured data.