Immediate release of GeoKettle 2.5, the Community Edition of its Spatial ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool. Dedicated to operational and analytical geospatial data integration, this latest version provide users with a tool that is even more powerful, more scalable, faster, and aligned with industry standards.
GeoKettle 2.5’s new features include:
With the release of GeoKettle 2.0-RC1, various tools (wiki, trac, forum, …) have been set up and made available for supporting the community interested in open source projects hosted on spatialytics.org.
This first post deals with the creation and usage of a job/transformation repository. It is a very powerful and exclusive but not so known feature of GeoKettle. A repository in GeoKettle lets you create a common workspace where to share jobs and transformations between different users across your organization. It is a practical way for some users to collaboratively work on a data integration process and to keep track of changes on the jobs and transformations during time. As it allows the centralisation of jobs and transformations in a shared repository, it avoids having different versions of a same transformation on various computers, which often results in the users finally do not know anymore what is the right and up-to-date version of the transformation.
To know more and especially how to create and use such a job/transformation repository in GeoKettle, please visit the associated documentation page on the wiki.
Here is the version 2.0 of GeoKettle, now available to download.
I suggest you go read the Wiki page giving all the details on the new features.
Visit the project home page to get an easy access to:
Download: GeoKettle version 2.0-RC1 is available now for download on SourceForge.
Quality: We have implemented a bug tracking system specifically for GeoKettle with access to source code, the history of activities and interventions, the “roadmap” (which remains to be fed) and of course, the monitoring the corrections status.
Support: A FORUM is now in place to support the “users” and “developers”.
Documentation: a new Documentation Center is also in place to collect relevant information and documentation.
