PDI Architecture

Overview

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