我们先来看看Kettle能做什么:
1. Data warehouse population with built-in support for slowly changing dimensions, junk dimensions and much, much more.
2. Export of database(s) to text-file(s) or other databases
3. Import of data into databases, ranging from text-files to excel sheets
4. Data migration between database applications
5. Exploration of data in existing databases. (tables, views, synonyms, )
6. Information enrichment by looking up data in various information stores (databases, text-files, excel sheets, )
7. Data cleaning by applying complex conditions in data transformations
8. Application integration