Re: Hi, Friends, are there any ETL tools (free or commercial) available for PostgreSQL?

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:32 PM, sunpeng <bluevaley(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi, Friends, are there any ETL tools (free or commercial) available for
> PostgreSQL?
>
>
*ETL Tools for PostgreSQL::*

Definition: An ETL process data to load into the database from a flat file

A. Extract
B. Transform
C. Load

1. PGLoader - Load .csv file
2. Benetl 1.8 - Load .txt or .csv or .xls file
3. Talend Open Studio => http://www.talend.com/index.php
4. Pentaho Kettle => http://kettle.pentaho.com/
5. Visual Importer => Data can be imported from flat files,Excel.MS
Access,Oracle.Mysql.Interbase,PostgreSQL,oleDB,ODBC and DBF files.
6. CloverETL => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloverETL

Both [3 &4] of these ETL solutions have a lot of the same types of features:

- Both are Java based and run on Linux and Windows (Talend is
Eclipse-based)
- Visual designers for creating the transformations
- Connectivity for a myriad of databases, including all the big DBs,
text formats, etc.
- Supports distributing jobs across multiple servers if you are doing
serious lifting
- Excellent error handling and error notification systems
- Active and helpful forums (Kettle is older and seems to have a larger
community however)
- Free and open source
- They are complex enough to handle a lot of tasks, but not so much as
to kill you
- There are versions of both (GeoKettle and Spatial Data Integrator)
that are tailored for GIS

Thanks & Regards
Raghu Ram