Does anybody know the list of Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) connectors list?

Question

I am doing comparison between three open source ETL tools Talend, Kettle and CloverETL.

I could find with no problem Talend and CloverETL's connector list. But, I cannot find the one for Kettle.

Does someone knows them or where can I find them ?

Thanks a lot,

Answer 1

I assume by "connector" you mean input/output nodes and not intermediate transformations. Just looking through the Kettle GUI, I see:

Inputs

• Access
• CSV
• De-serialize from file [GH: not sure what kind of file/serialization this means]
• ESRI Shapefiles
• Excel
• Fixed File
• Generate Random
• File system functions (file name, row count, etc)
• XML
• LDAP
• LDIF
• Mondrian
• Property [GH: a Java-style .properties file perhaps?]
• RSS
• S3 CSV
• Salesforce
• [Database] Table
• Text File
• XBase

Outputs

• Access
• Excel
• DB Table
• Properties [GH: again, I'm guessing a Java-style .properties file]
• RSS
• SQL File
• Serialize to File
• Text File
• XML

Answer 2

This is the updated list for Pentaho Input/Output connectors as at 25-Nov-2011 summarised from Pentaho Data Integration Steps.

Input and Output

• Amazon S3
• Cassandra
• HBase
• Java Property
• JDBC databases
• Json
• LDAP
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Excel
• OpenERP
• Palo Cell
• Palo Dimension
• RSS
• Salesforce
• Text file
• XML

Input Only

• CSV Text file
• email
• Zip file (GZIP)
• LDIF
• Mondian
• MongoDB
• OLAP
• SAP
• SAS
• XBase (DBF)
• Yaml

Bulk Load (input)

• ElasticSearch
• Greenplum
• Infobright
• Ingres VectorWise
• LucidDB
• MonetDB
• MySQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Teradata