Developer(s) | Pentaho Corporation |
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Stable release |
6.1.0.1 (EE) , 6.1.0.1 (CE) / April, 2016 (EE) , April 2016 (CE)
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Operating system | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X |
Platform | Java (software platform) |
Type | Business Intelligence |
License | 1) Pentaho Community Edition (CE): Apache license version 2.0; and 2) Pentaho Enterprise Edition (EE): Commercial License |
Website | www |
Pentaho is a Business Intelligence (BI) software company that offers Pentaho Business Analytics, a suite of open source products which provide data integration, OLAP services, reporting, dashboarding, data mining and ETL capabilities. Pentaho was founded in 2004 by five founders. and is headquartered in Orlando, FL, USA. Pentaho was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems in 2015[1].
The Pentaho suite consists of two offerings, an enterprise and community edition. The enterprise edition contains extra features not found in the community edition. The enterprise edition is obtained through an annual subscription and includes extra support services. Pentaho's core offering is frequently enhanced by add-on products, usually in the form of plug-ins, from the company itself and also the broader community of users and enthusiasts. The table below summarizes the most popular products and plug-ins in the Pentaho ecosystem.
Pentaho Enterprise Edition (EE) and Pentaho Community Edition (CE).
It supports the MDX (multidimensional expressions) query language and the XML for Analysis and olap4j interface specifications. It reads from SQL and other data sources and aggregates data in a memory cache. Mondrian can be run separately from the Pentaho BI Platform, but is always bundled with the platform itself in both EE and CE versions.
All of these plug-ins function with Pentaho Enterprise Edition (EE) and Pentaho Community Edition (CE).
CDC stands for Community Distributed Cache and allows for high-performance, scalable and distributed memory clustering cache based on Hazelcast for both CDA and Mondrian. CDC is a Pentaho plug-in that provides the following features: