Talend Technical Note

Differences between Talend Open Studio

and Talend Integration Suite
Updated October 2008—v3.0

Talend Integration Suite is the first Open Source data integration solution for the enterprise. It
supports the tough requirements of enterprise development, and scales to the highest levels
of data volumes and process complexity.

Talend Integration Suite is a subscription service that extends Talend Open Studio with profes-
sional grade technical support and additional features to facilitate the work of large teams
and enterprise-scale deployments.

This Technical Note provides a side-by-side feature comparison of Talend Integration Suite and
Talend Open Studio.

Page 1 of 8
Talend Technical Note Differences between Talend Open Studio
and Talend Integration Suite

Summary of Features Talend Integration Suite

Talend Open
Studio Team Professional Enterprise
9 Included ■ Optional
Edition Edition Edition
Core Data Integration Functionality
Business Modeler 9 9 9 9
Job Designer 9 9 9 9
Metadata Manager with Impact Analysis 9 9 9 9
Store Metadata & Projects in Own SVN 9 9 9 9
Job Hierarchy with Dependency Analysis 9 9 9 9
Multi Environment Management 9 9 9 9
400 Components Available 9 9 9 9
Change Data Capture 9 9 9 9
Import Ecosystem Components 9 9 9 9
Data Quality Option 9 ■ ■ ■
Developer Productivity—Advanced Studio
Joblets 9 9 9 9
Connectivity & Web Services Wizards 9 9 9 9
Auto Documentation 9 9 9 9
Data Preview 9 9 9 9
Command Line Options 9 9 9 9
Metadata Import 9 9 9 9
Teamwork and Development Consolidation
Shared Repository 9 9 9 9
Secure Metadata Sharing 9 9 9 9
Check In/Check Out 9 9 9 9
Deployment Facilities
Expose Job as a Web Service 9 9 9 9
Job Conductor 9 9 9 9
Job Conductor Advanced 9 9 9 9
Distant Run 9 9 9 9
Grid Conductor & CPU Balancer 9 9 9 9
Execution Monitoring
Activity Monitoring Console ■ 9 9 9
Activity Monitoring Dashboard 9 9 9
Support
Community-based: Forums, Bugtracker... 9 9 9 9
Access to Talend Technical Support ■ 9 9 9
Documentation 9 9 9 9
Premium Service Levels 9 ■ ■ ■
License Type & Indemnification
Open Source GPL License 9 9 9 9
Open Source Subscription License 9 9 9 9
Indemnification 9 9 9 9

Page 2 of 8
Talend Technical Note Differences between Talend Open Studio
and Talend Integration Suite

1. Change Data Capture

Talend Integration Suite introduces Change Data Capture to the product’s core functional-
ity. In Publish & Subscribe mode, this feature detects changed records in real time allow-
ing the changed data to be sent immediately to other applications and cuts the time
needed to load and update data during ETL or operational data integration.

2. Developer Productivity—Advanced Studio

By providing additional guidance and wizards, Talend Integration Suite's Advanced Studio
increases developer productivity.

a. Joblets

A Joblet is a custom component used to replace component groups in jobs. Joblets

help factorize recurrent processes or complex transformation steps and facilitate the
understanding of complex jobs.

The actual Joblet code is automatically included when the code is generated at run-
time.

b. Connectivity Wizards

These wizards allow users to connect to a source or target which has a complex data
model or set of APIs (such as SAP) without knowing it well or understanding the tech-
nology involved.

Page 3 of 8
Talend Technical Note Differences between Talend Open Studio
and Talend Integration Suite

c. Web Services Explorer

The Web Services Explorer facilitates the discovery of Web Services graphically, via the
parsing and graphical presentation of the contents of the WSDL descriptor. It provides
access to the operations, parameters, and documentation on a given WSDL. Through
the Web Services Explorer developers can test, debug and catch SOAP Re-
quests/Responses.

Page 4 of 8
Talend Technical Note Differences between Talend Open Studio
and Talend Integration Suite

d. Auto Documentation

This feature automatically generates HTML documentation whenever a job is created,

saved, or updated. This documentation is kept in the Shared Repository, and can be
easily viewed in the Job Designer.

With Auto Documentation, the project documentation is always up-to-date and is con-
solidated in the repository for all project stakeholders.

e. Data Preview

Used to discover data, and to test and debug processes, Data Preview lets developers
access and preview data from input and output components.

Page 5 of 8
Talend Technical Note Differences between Talend Open Studio
and Talend Integration Suite

f. Command Line Options

Talend Integration Suite provides a set of command line options that allow developers
and administrators to easily perform batch edits. This may include updating job prop-
erties, promoting projects to production, exporting/importing jobs or sets of jobs, etc.

g. Metadata Import

It is possible to import directly in Talend Integration Suite's Shared Repository some

metadata from third party tools – for example when migrating other data integration
processes to Talend.

3. Teamwork and Development Consolidation

Talend Integration Suite consolidates all project information and enterprise metadata in a
centralized repository shared by all integration process stakeholders; business users, job
developers, and IT operations staff can all access the same data. The shared repository al-
lows team members to store and share their business models, integration jobs, and meta-
data. This promotes reusability of objects and code, and facilitates the design of best
practices that can then be leveraged by all developers.

The shared repository features advanced collaboration capabilities including object-level

check-in and check-out, as well as users, roles, permissions, and privileges management.

4. Managing Complex Deployments

Talend Integration Suite incorporates powerful capabilities for managing all data integra-
tion deployments from the simplest to the most complex, from single jobs to thousands of
jobs, and with data volumes ranging from a few records to terabytes of data.

Page 6 of 8
Talend Technical Note Differences between Talend Open Studio
and Talend Integration Suite

a. Job Conductor

Job Conductor coordinates and schedules event-based and time-based data integration
jobs, including load balancing.

b. Distant Run

Distant Run lets the developer execute a job remotely from the Job Designer interface.
This is useful for testing or executing jobs upon request on different systems.

c. Grid Conductor

Grid Conductor optimizes the use of the execution Grid by automatically distributing
jobs across the Grid. It includes dynamic load balancing and fail-over capabilities.

d. CPU Balancer

CPU Balancer lets data integration processes benefit automatically from advanced CPU
optimization, including multi-CPU and multi-core CPU servers. It balances jobs be-
tween all available processing resources and provides the highest degree of paralleliza-
tion.

5. Execution monitoring

Talend Integration Suite’s advanced monitoring capabilities allow centralized supervision

of all integration processes. Monitored parameters include job events (successes, failures,
warnings, etc.), execution times, and data volumes. All monitoring is performed through a
single console or Web dashboard, fully integrated to Talend Open Studio or available as a
stand-alone environment. Customizable indicators and thresholds provide a high-level
view with the ability to drill down into individual jobs.

Page 7 of 8
Talend Technical Note Differences between Talend Open Studio
and Talend Integration Suite

6. Technical Support

All Talend Integration Suite subscriptions include access to Technical Support Centers,
which are directly linked to Talend’s Research & Development organization. Subscribers
benefit from prompt, effective, and high-quality support services from Talend experts.

© 2008 Talend Inc. All rights reserved.

Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other brand names or
products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Page 8 of 8