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2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Survey of Open Source Tools for Business Intelligence
Authors : Christian Thomsen, Torben Bach Pedersen
Published in: Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The industrial use of open source Business Intelligence (BI) tools is not yet common. It is therefore of interest to explore which possibilities are available for open source BI and compare the tools.
In this survey paper, we consider the capabilities of a number of open source tools for BI. In the paper, we consider three Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) tools, three On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) servers, two OLAP clients, and four database management systems (DBMSs). Further, we describe the licenses that the products are released under.
It is argued that the ETL tools are still not very mature for use in industry while the DBMSs are mature and applicable to real-world projects. The OLAP servers and clients are not as powerful as commercial solutions but may be useful in less demanding projects.