Talend Open-Studio Supported I/O Formats

Question

I'm considering Talend's Open Studio for a Data Integration / ETL project, and I can't seem to find a list of formats for which it can input from or output to out of the box. For instance, I'm comparing it against Pentaho's Kettle, which I found supports File System I/O, MS Excel, Access, XML, JSON, SAP, various SQL databases, etc., out of the box. Where can I find similar information for Talend?

By "out of the box" I mean without having to code some Java plugin to do the conversion manually.

Answer 1

One way to look into this is to check out the Talend components reference guide from their download page: http://www.talend.com/download/data-integration (click on the User Manuals tab).

The Reference Guide PDF describes all components that come with Talend out of the box and will include all possible formats you can use.

Answer 2

Here is a list of all the Talend connectors, including the connection methods: http://www.talendforge.org/components/

All of the formats that you mentioned are supported.