Take DMX-h ETL Pre-Release for a Test Drive! by Keith Kohl.
From the post:
Last Monday, we announced two new DMX-h Hadoop products, DMX-h Sort Edition and DMX-h ETL Edition. Several Blog posts last week included why I thought the announcement was cool and also some Hadoop benchmarks on both TeraSort and also running ETL.
Part of our announcement was the DMX-h ETL Pre-Release Test Drive. The test drive is a trial download of our DMX-h ETL software. We have installed our software on our partner Cloudera’s VM (VMware) image complete with the user case accelerators, sample data, documentation and even videos. While the download is a little large ─ ok it’s over 3GB─ it’s a complete VM with Linux and Cloudera’s CDH 4.2 Hadoop release (the DMX-h footprint is a mere 165MB!).
Cool!
Then Keith asks later in the post:
The test drive is not your normal download. This is actually a pre-release of our DMX-h ETL product offering. While we have announced our product, it is not generally available (GA) yet…scheduled for end of June. We are offering a download of a product that isn’t even available yet…how many vendors do that?!
Err, lots of them? It’s call a beta/candidate/etc release?
😉
Marketing quibbles aside, it does sound quite interesting.
In some ways I would like to see the VM release model become more common.
Test driving software should not be a install/configuration learning experience.
That should come after users are interested in the software.
BTW, interesting approach, at least reading the webpages/documentation.
Doesn’t generate code for conversion/ETL so there is no code to maintain. Written against the DMX-h engine.
Need to think about what that means in terms of documenting semantics.
Or reconciling different ETL approaches in the same enterprise.
More to follow.