Apatar

Infobox Software
name = Apatar
latest_release_version = v1.0.8.6
latest_release_date = September 21, 2007
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = ETL, Data migration and SQL.
license = General Public License version 2.0
website = [http://www.apatarforge.org apatarforge.org]

Apatar is an open source ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) and mashup data integration software application. Other open source data integration projects are Clover.ETL, Pentaho Project, Talend Open Studio or Enhydra Octopus.

Typical use

* Database migration.
* Application integration
* Database creation/update scripts.
* Cross-database operations, import/export.
* Automated database schema upgrade.

Apatar open source project was founded in 2005 [cite web | title = Apatar Crashes Data Mashup Party | url = http://www.sdtimes.com/article/story-20070715-13.html | accessdate = 2007-09-24 | publisher = [http://www.sdtimes.com SD Times] ] . Apatar, Inc., a commercial company providing support for Apatar open source software, was founded in 2007 [cite web | title = Open Source Companies to Watch | url = http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/082307-open-source-to-watch.html | accessdate = 2007-09-24 | publisher = [http://www.networkworld.com NetworkWorld] ] . Users of Apatar software include R.R. Donnelley and Autodesk [cite web | title = Two Ways To Deal With SOA's Data Integration Challenge | url = http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200900682&pgno=2&queryText= | accessdate = 2007-09-24 | publisher = [http://www.informationweek.com InformationWeek] ] , [cite web | title = Young software exec moves to open source model | url = http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2007/07/16/story12.html?page=2 | accessdate = 2007-09-24 | publisher = [http://bizjournals.com American City Business Journals, Inc.] ] . Apatar data integration software is adopted for Amazon Web Services platform [cite web | title = Open Source Companies to watch | url = http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201300517 | accessdate = 2007-09-24 | publisher = [http://www.informationweek.com InformationWeek] ] .

References

External links

* [http://www.apatar.com Apatar Website]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/apatar Apatar project page on SourceForge.Net]
* [http://www.apatarforge.org Apatar Community Website]