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Thierry,<br>
Excellent docs, thank you. A user will get a very good idea about what
GeoKettle can do from this explanation.<br>
<br>
I've made a few minor syntax changes which don't change meaning at all.<br>
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<h1>GeoKettle<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part1.09080200.09040308@gmail.com"
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<h2>Business Intelligence<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part2.07060001.01060603@gmail.com"
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<p>GeoKettle is a “spatially-enabled” version of <a
class="reference external"
href="http://www.pentaho.com/products/data_integration/">Pentaho Data
Integration (Kettle)</a>. It is a powerful, metadata-driven spatial ETL
(Extract, Transform and Load) tool dedicated to the integration of
different data sources for building and updating geospatial databases
and data warehouses.</p>
<p>GeoKettle enables the Extraction of data from data sources, the
Transformation of data in order to correct errors, make some data
cleansing, change the data structure, make them compliant to defined
standards, and the Loading of transformed data into a target DataBase
Management System (DBMS), GIS file, or geospatial web service.</p>
<p>GeoKettle is particularly useful when a user wants to automate
complex and repetitive data processing without producing any specific
code, to make conversions between various data formats, to migrate data
from one DBMS to another, to perform some data feeding tasks into
various DBMS, to populate analytical data warehouses for decision
support purposes, etc.</p>
<p>In the geospatial domain, Geokettle compares to FME, a proprietary
spatial ETL tool edited by Safe Software. GeoKettle is stable, fast,
standards compliant, with hundreds of functions and read/write support
for many file formats, services and DBMS. GeoKettle is used by diverse
organisations from around the world, including governmental agencies,
banks, insurance and geospatial system integrators.</p>
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<div class="section" id="core-features">
<h3>Core Features<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part3.03080300.00010407@gmail.com"
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<ul class="simple">
<li>Extract data from:
<ul>
<li>35+ database types: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, ...</li>
<li>XML files</li>
<li>XLS files</li>
<li>Xbase files (dBase, Foxpro, etc)</li>
<li>File systems information</li>
<li>Generated data</li>
<li>MS Access files</li>
<li>LDAP</li>
<li>Geospatial data formats: Shapefile, ...</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Transformation of data:
<ul>
<li>Engine based data transfer (no code generator)</li>
<li>Looking up data in databases, files or memory</li>
<li>Calculating</li>
<li>Scripting: Javascript, SQL, RegExp</li>
<li>Splitting</li>
<li>Mapping</li>
<li>Selecting</li>
<li>Partitioning</li>
<li>Filtering</li>
<li>Merging</li>
<li>Joining</li>
<li>Duplicating</li>
<li>Clustering (MPP)</li>
<li>Pivotting</li>
<li>Geospatial data analysis and processing</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Load data into a target format:
<ul>
<li>Database loads</li>
<li>Data warehouse population</li>
<li>Partitioned loading</li>
<li>Bulk loading</li>
<li>Parallel loading</li>
<li>Clustering</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Environment:
<ul>
<li>Full GUI named “Spoon” to edit every transformation options</li>
<li>Command line tools: execute jobs and transformations</li>
<li>Web server: remote execution and clustering perfect in cloud
computing environment for very large datasets processing</li>
<li>Programming API for Java</li>
<li>Plugin eco-system</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="implemented-standards">
<h3>Implemented Standards<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part4.02070206.09050105@gmail.com"
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<ul class="simple">
<li>OGC standards compliant (SFS)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="details">
<h3>Details<a class="headerlink"
href="cid:part5.00040200.09030307@gmail.com"
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<p><strong>Website:</strong> <a class="reference external"
href="http://www.geokettle.org/">http://www.geokettle.org/</a></p>
<p><strong>Licence:</strong> GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
version 2.1</p>
<p><strong>Software Version:</strong> 3.2.0-20090609</p>
<p><strong>Supported Platforms:</strong> Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris</p>
<p><strong>API Interfaces:</strong> Java, Javascript</p>
<p><strong>Support:</strong> <a class="reference external"
href="http://www.spatialytics.org">http://www.spatialytics.org</a>
& <a class="reference external" href="http://www.spatialytics.com">http://www.spatialytics.com</a></p>
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