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Are ETL Tools Still Relevant?

This question is facing user-centric organizations and even ETL vendors themselves. Will they be able to survive the ever-changing data landscape? Let’s first understand the genesis of ETL, which originated in the data warehousing world. It had a high learning curve for developers but it provided many benefits like distributed processing, maintainability, being somewhat UI-based instead of scripting, etc.

The changing data transformation process and terminology for the data-driven age can be summed up in the below table:

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