PDI Architecture

PDI consists of several components:

• PDI (aka Kettle)

  • All of the tools

  • PDI / Kettle is sometimes used to mean Spoon (The Graphical "interface" of PDI / Kettle)

• Spoon

  • Main GUI

  • Graphical Job / Transformation designer

  • Execute Jobs / Transformations individually

  • Monitor slave servers (Carte instances)

• Carte

  • HTTP server for remote execution of Jobs / Transformations

  • Clusters with other Carte instances to distribute Job / Transformation execution

• Pan

  • Command line execution of Transformations

• Kitchen

  • Command line execution of Jobs

• Encr

  • Command line tool for encrypting strings for storage / use by PDI

• Enterprise Edition (EE) Data Integration Server

  • Data Integration Engine: (Remote) execution of Jobs / Transformations

  • Security: integrate with existing security e.g. LDAP or Active Directory

  • Scheduling and Monitoring

  • Content Management: Managed repository of jobs and transformations