The company said that Pentaho Data Integration 2.4 comes with a new massively parallel processing architecture that efficiently distributes ETL tasks across multiple servers.
Pentaho has also added new GUI features like multi-tabbing and visual transform indicators that help enhance developer productivity.
It has also enhanced support for Javascript rules creation and execution performance and ETL job execution has now been tightly integrated into the core ETL development environment.
Pentaho Data Integration is based on the acquisition of the Kettle open source project in April last year, and is part of a growing suite of open source BI components that also includes reporting, OLAP, data mining and workflow.
Pentaho added the Data Integration product to its BI Suite in July last year. The software comes with a modern metadata-driven architecture, a library of transformations and tight integration with MySQL databases. It also supports other popular open source databases like PostGres, Hypersonic, Firebird SQL, and Ingres, as well as commercial databases including Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and Sybase.
Matt Casters, chief data integration architect at Orlando, Florida-based Pentaho, said the company worked closely with both existing customers and the open source community on the release, including code-level contributions from developers afar as Africa, and Australia.
We can allow organizations to take advantage of extreme ETL scalability with all the benefits of a professional open source data integration platform.
