Top Technical Considerations for Choosing an ETL Tool

This excerpt from The Essential Guide to Data Integration discusses technical considerations when choosing a data integration tool. It highlights the importance of data connector quality, including open-source vs. proprietary connectors and standardized schemas and normalization. Additionally, it emphasizes the need for tools that support multiple sources and destinations, as well as automation features like API control, handling data type changes, continuous sync scheduling, automatic schema migrations, and general performance metrics. The text also explores the differences between ETL and ELT approaches to transformations within or before the data warehouse, emphasizing the benefits of non-destructive transformations in an elastic cloud-based environment. Lastly, it touches on security and regulatory compliance considerations for data integration providers.