Pentaho Community Edition May 2026

Once owned by Hitachi Vantara, Pentaho is now part of the open-source ecosystem. While the "Enterprise Edition" (EE) is commercial, the remains a powerful, free option for data integration.

If you’ve been searching for a robust, open-source ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool without the enterprise price tag, you’ve likely stumbled upon Pentaho Community Edition (CE) .

| Feature | Enterprise Edition (Paid) | Community Edition (Free) | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | ✅ Full support | ❌ No / broken connectors | | REST API endpoint generation | ✅ | ❌ | | Data Lineage / Impact Analysis | ✅ | ❌ | | LDAP / SSO Security | ✅ | ❌ | | Metadata Injection | Limited | ❌ | | PME (Predictive Models) | ✅ | ❌ |