Pentaho Data Integration commercial costs + azure hosting

Question

I did some Google searches but could not find any clear answer. How much does PDI/kettle costs for commercial usage? Is it potentially free? Can it be hosted in Azure?

Answer 1

It depends on your work amount. If you are looking for a very limited amount of usage, then Pentaho Community Edition would be better, since its free. But for Pentaho Enterprise Edition, you need to pay for the licence and stuff. Do not know much on the exact pricing and stuff.

But since you are looking only for Kettle, i would suggest to go with CE edition . Hope it helps :)

Answer 2

There are two flavors of Pentaho: a limited free version (Community Edition), and a professional version (Enterprise Edition). The Community Edition Kettle ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool is open-source and quite powerful, but the free version of the Business Analytics tool is not as versatile. You can find both here: http://community.pentaho.com/

The Enterprise Edition's price will vary depending on your planned use, primarily the number of cores you want to run it on. I can't give exact numbers, but as of December 2014 it's the most afforable of the professional BI platforms, probably about 10% of the cost of Microstrategy. Might still be out of reach of most small to medium businesses, though.

Answer 3

The company I work for was recently given a quote for the Pentaho EE licence. I'm from the uk so the price is in pounds. We were offered a quote of £30,000 a year and told it is usually £50,000 a year.

Needless to say, we settled with CE.