Jack,
I didn't know this concept, but indeed, it seems like a good way to
define our application, and also opens possibilities of improvement.
Thanks for the link!
Best regards,
Marcelo.
2013/2/21 Jack Park <jackp...@topicquests.org>
> Marcelo
>
> In some sense, it sounds like you are aiming at building a topic map
> of all your resources.
>
> Jack
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Marcelo Elias Del Valle
> <marc...@s1mbi0se.com.br> wrote:
> > Hello David,
> >
> > First of all, thanks for answering!
> >
> > 2013/2/21 David Quarterman <da...@corexe.com>
> >
> >> Looked through your site and the framework looks very powerful as an
> >> aggregator. We do a lot of data aggregation from many different sources
> in
> >> many different formats (XML, JSON, text, CSV, etc) using RDBMS as the
> main
> >> repository for eventual SOLR indexing. A 'one-stop-shop' for all this
> would
> >> be very appealing.
> >>
> >
> > Actually, just to clarify, it uses Cassandra as repository, not an
> > RDMS. We want to use it for large scale, so you could import entire
> company
> > databases into the repo and relate the data from one another. However,
> If I
> > understood you right, you got the idea, an intermediate repo before
> > indexing, so you could postpone decisions about what to index and how...
> >
> >
> >> Have you looked at products like Talend & Jitterbit? These offer
> >> transformation from almost anything to almost anything using graphical
> >> interfaces (Jitterbit is better) and a PHP-like coding format for
> trickier
> >> work. If you (or somebody) could add a graphical interface, the world
> would
> >> beat a path to your door!
> >
> >
> > This is very interesting, actually! We considered using Talend when
> we
> > started our business, but we decided to go ahead with the development of
> a
> > new product. The reason was: Talend is great, but it limits a good
> > programmer, if he is more agile coding than using graphical interfaces.
> > Have user interfaces as a possibility is nice, but as something you HAVE
> TO
> > use is awful. Besides, it has a learning curve and seems to run better
> and
> > you hire their own platform, and we wanted to choose the fine grain of
> our
> > platform.
> > However, your question made me think a lot about it. Do you think
> > integrating to jitterbit or talend could be interesting? Or did you mean
> > developing a new user interface? The bad thing I see in integrating with
> a
> > talend like program is that you start to be dependent on the graphical
> > interface, I feel it's hard to use my own java code... I might be wrong.
> > Anyway, I will consider this possibility, but if you could explain
> > better why you think one or other could be such a good idea would help
> us a
> > lot. Would you be interested in using such a tool yourself?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Marcelo.
>
