# PDI big data transformation steps

You can use the following Pentaho Data Integration transformation steps to help enable PDI to work with big data technologies:

* Avro Input
* Avro Output
* Cassandra Input
* Cassandra Output
* CouchDB
* Hadoop File Input
* Hadoop File Output
* HBase Input
* HBase Output
* HBase Row Decoder
* Kafka Consumer
* Kafka Producer
* MapReduce Input
* MapReduce Output
* MongoDB Input
* MongoDB Output
* ORC Input
* ORC Output
* Parquet Input
* Parquet Output
* Splunk Input
* Splunk Output
* SSTable Output

See the **Transformation step reference** in the **Pentaho Data Integration** document for details and additional job entries.


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