‘Big data’ need not be expensive after Pentaho announced that it has open-sourced its big data analytics tools, known as the Pentaho Kettle project.
Pentaho said it has made freely available under open source all of its big data capabilities in the new Pentaho Kettle 4.3 release, and has moved the entire Pentaho Kettle project to the Apache License, version 2.0.
Because Apache is the licence under which Hadoop and several of the leading NoSQL databases are published, this move will further accelerate the rapid adoption of Pentaho Kettle for Big Data by developers, analysts and data scientists as the go-to tool for taking advantage of big data, the company said.
“In order to obtain broader market adoption of big data technology including Hadoop and NoSQL, Pentaho is open sourcing its data integration product under the free Apache license,” said Matt Casters, founder and chief architect of the Pentaho Kettle Project, in a statement. “This will foster success and productivity for developers, analysts and data scientists giving them one tool for data integration and access to discovery and visualisation.”
With regard to Hadoop, Pentaho Kettle makes available job orchestration steps for Hadoop, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Pentaho MapReduce, HDFS File Operations and Pig scripts. All major Hadoop distributions are supported, including Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Apache Hadoop, Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH), Cloudera Enterprise, EMC Greenplum HD, HortonWorks Data Platform powered by Apache Hadoop, and MapR’s M3 Free and M5 Edition. Pentaho Kettle can execute ETL transforms outside the Hadoop cluster or within the nodes of the cluster, taking advantage of Hadoop’s distributed processing and reliability.
Pentaho officials said Pentaho Kettle for Big Data delivers at least a tenfold boost in productivity for developers through visual tools that eliminate the need to write code such as Hadoop MapReduce Java programs, Pig scripts, Hive queries, or NoSQL database queries and scripts.
In addition, Pentaho officials said Pentaho Kettle also:
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