Comments on: Apatar – a few extracts short of a load http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/07/12/aparta-a-few-extracts-short-of-a-load/ A country datasmith. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:24:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: gobansaor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/07/12/aparta-a-few-extracts-short-of-a-load/#comment-4650 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:03:32 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/aparta-a-few-extracts-short-of-a-load/#comment-4650 @I.Kato

Yes, Talend (or Pentaho PDI aka Kettle) is what you need if you intend to do serious heavy lifting of data, but to be fair to Apatar, their product has improved a lot since I wrote this (including the addition of an Excel component!). Even so, even for ‘simple’ mashups, I find Talend a more rewarding tool to use, particularly now that I’ve “rediscovered” Groovy as a scripting language for Talend.

Tom

]]> By: I.Kato http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/07/12/aparta-a-few-extracts-short-of-a-load/#comment-4649 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:32:27 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/aparta-a-few-extracts-short-of-a-load/#comment-4649 Apatar introduces a concept that is quite interesting though it is not designed so as to deal with large amounts of data. Indeed, the “no code” solution has its advantages but there are strings attached: it does hide the complexity of integration, but it also limits the flexibility of the software.

In any case, Apatar is, indeed, more geared towards data mashups. In order to perform ETL, a tool that can manage great quantities of data is required, and in the open source world I do have been running into Talend Open Studio a couple times.

]]> By: gobansaor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/07/12/aparta-a-few-extracts-short-of-a-load/#comment-3153 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:03:54 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/aparta-a-few-extracts-short-of-a-load/#comment-3153 Brian,

I’ve had it on my list for some time now to try out Jitterbit (that and Splunk http://www.splunk.com). My first impressions were of a high-end tool-set more suitable for very large organisations rather than the micro-ETL that I’m more interested in, so I’m unlikely to make time in the short-term (especially as it doesn’t support SQLite!!!) but if I do I’ll make sure to blog about it.

Tom

]]> By: Brian Johnson http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/07/12/aparta-a-few-extracts-short-of-a-load/#comment-3151 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:15:22 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/aparta-a-few-extracts-short-of-a-load/#comment-3151 Thanks for sharing your experiences with Kettle and Talend. Have you looked at or tried Jitterbit? I have narrowed my list to these three and was looking for someone that might have tried it.

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