What is Apatar?
Apatar is an open-source extract, transform, load (ETL) tool used for data integration and migration projects. It provides a graphical interface to connect to various data sources like databases, web services, flat files, extract data from them, transform the data if needed, and load it into another database or data warehouse.
Some key features of Apatar include:
- Connectivity to a wide range of data sources and targets like MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, JSON, XML, CSV files etc.
- An easy to use graphical interface to map data flows for ETL without coding
- Data transformation features like joining data from multiple sources, lookup transformations, filtering, data validation/quality checks etc.
- Scheduling capabilities to run ETL jobs at specified times
- Collaboration features to share data integration projects with other team members
- Open-source and available free of cost
Apatar can help companies with data migration, consolidation from multiple systems, synchronizing data between systems, analytics data preparation, and more. It provides a code-free environment to implement complex data transformations for these projects. The open-source nature makes it cost-effective compared to commercial ETL tools.
Talend, Skyvia, Jitterbit, Oracle Data Integrator, Kettle Pentaho, IBM InfoSphere BigInsights, snaplogic, Zynk, ql.io, Logi Vision, Diyotta 4.0 are some alternatives to Apatar.