使用 Homebrew 安装 kettle

项目链接

• 主页
• 仓库
• 上游文档
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• pdicarte
• pdikitchen
• pdipan

项目历史

Matt Casters began Kettle as a platform-independent ETL project before releasing it as open source in December 2005. The project joined Pentaho soon afterward and became the data-integration component of the Pentaho platform, while the Kettle name stayed attached to the repository, file formats, user community, and command-line tools.

After Pentaho became part of Hitachi Data Systems in 2015, the public code continued in the pentaho-kettle GitHub repository under the Pentaho Data Integration name. The repository structure reflects a large Java application: assemblies for distribution, core and engine modules, UI modules, plugins, and integration tests.

采用历史

Kettle gained adoption as a visual ETL tool in the Pentaho ecosystem, with community downloads distributed through SourceForge and commercial editions distributed through Pentaho/Hitachi channels. Its command-line tools made it attractive to operations teams that wanted GUI-authored data flows scheduled from cron, shell scripts, or enterprise schedulers.

In late 2019 Apache Hop started as a fork of Kettle/Pentaho Data Integration. Hop later diverged into an independent Apache project, but its migration documentation is evidence of the amount of Kettle/PDI project work accumulated in the field.

使用方式

Package users typically care about pdipan, pdikitchen, and Carte-style execution rather than the full desktop experience: those launchers run transformations, jobs, and remote execution services from files or repositories. The package is therefore part data-engineering tool and part compatibility layer for older Pentaho deployments.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

Kettle is a good example of a GUI-first enterprise data tool that still belongs in Unix package indexes because its real production surface is scriptable. It also preserves a recognizable lineage from early open-source BI through modern data-orchestration projects such as Apache Hop.

时间线

• 2001: Matt Casters began work on the ETL tool that became Kettle.
• 2005-12: Kettle was released as open source.
• 2006: Kettle joined the Pentaho project and became Pentaho Data Integration.
• 2015: Hitachi Data Systems acquired Pentaho.
• 2019: Apache Hop began as a fork of Kettle/Pentaho Data Integration.

Related projects

• Pentaho Business Analytics and Hitachi Vantara Pentaho are the surrounding platform family. Apache Hop is the most important descendant project, initially forked from Kettle/PDI and later developed on an independent roadmap.

来源

• https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/10.2-data-integration
• https://github.com/pentaho/pentaho-kettle
• https://hop.apache.org/tech-manual/latest/hop-vs-kettle/index.html
• https://neo4j.com/blog/master-data-management/matt-casters-behind-kettle-has-joined-neo4j/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/pentaho/news/