GDE-Components

Ab-Initio has 13 categories of in-built component.Those components will be used for achieving specific operation.They are as follows.

Compress

Continuous
Dataset
Database
Partition
De-partition
Sort
Miscellaneous
FTP
Translate
Transform
Validate
Deprecated

GDE-Environment

What Is Ab-Initio?

Ab-Initio is a Latin term meaning "from the beginning".It is a powerful ETL tool (hope you are aware of ETL)used in data Warehousing.It's main objective is to process the data for Enterprise.

This software works with client server model.
 * Client is called GDE-Graphical development Environment.It resides on user desktop.
 * Server is known as Co-operating system.

Parallelism and Integration process is the major part in creating Data Warehouse and Date-mart.Ab-Intio code is called Graph,which has got the extension .mp.