FAQ

Why should I use Adele?

It's up to You if you want to use Adele.
I have implemented Adele because there are some time consuming tasks in the daily work with data and the common tools like MS Excel don't have some required features.
Sure, there are some very specialized tools for these requirements. But there are some reasons against these tools (e.g. installation required, licenses, authorizations, data transformation effort, user experience, ...).
Therefore I decided to implement a small tool without installation, working at all common desktop platforms with a short integration to spreadsheet applications.

Platform support and requirements?

Adele is implemented in Java. The common desktop platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) are supported. At the moment a valid Java Runtime Version 6 is required. Later versions can require a higher Java version. There are no installations required: download the zip archive, extract it and start the adele.jar. If the automatic assigned memory is not enough for your work please see the configuration hints for increase the available memory.

What is the best way to test Adele?

Adele was built to work with data: remote and local. The best way to get an impression of the Adele functionality is to import sheet data from a spreadsheet application like excel by using the clipboard. Another simple option is to import local data files in a tab separated format.
Please read First steps for a quick start.

Can Adele work with very large data?

First question: what is the meaning of "very large" or "big data". Adele will be tested with local data files containing 1 million lines and more. Is this enough for a normal desktop business worker comparing to MS Excel?!

If you will use remote databases there are some functionality to analyze the remote data before the data will be extracted and usable within Adele. In this case you can analyze "very large data" (e.g. more than 10 million lines) and extract the segment you want to Adele (e.g. 1 million lines).

If there are enough memory (>1GB) available for Adele then you can process more than 1 million lines too. Try it.

How to connect other databases to Adele?

Adele has a builtin support for JDBC. All databases with a good JDBC driver could be used as datasource for Adele. Please take a look to the drivers.cfg file and add your driver. Files located in the homepath/Adele/cfg/drivers.cfg should be detected too. Then include all required files into the Adele/lib path. The drivers should be shown and found after restarting Adele.

Other topics?

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