Service Description - Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) v1.3.0
Technische modul informationen
Hersteller |
TechDivision GmbH |
Name |
Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) |
Open Source |
Yes |
License |
proprietary |
Pricing |
n/a |
Magento Version |
>= 2.2.0 |
Magento Edition |
Community + Commerce |
General
The Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) focuses on small and middle projects where import performance will not be a significant problem. As the Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) performance is already on a very competitive level, we’re talking about medium projects when 100.000 SKUs and below have to be imported regularly.
Besides the SKUs, which are indeed a good benchmark, aspects like the number of websites, attributes, attribute options, or other technical requirements as the infrastructure that should be used can significantly impact performance.
Therefore the decision to use the Pacemaker Professional Edition (PE) instead of the Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) always needs to investigate deeper into a project’s requirements and general conditions.
The Pacemaker Professional Edition (PE) is completely based on the Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) sources but replaces some main components to improve performance. Additionally, it comes with basic converter functionality and a Redis cache implementation that allows using a Redis server for caching.
It will be necessary for multi-process or -threaded environments to share state as well as global data.
Standard Connector
Operations
As the Pacemaker Professional Edition (PE) comes with a basic converter library that provides basic functionality to convert files from the source into the expected CSV format, an additional operation will be available.
As, in general, it will be possible to add any custom operation. This operation is virtual and needs to be implemented as needed
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convert
Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) v3.7
Hersteller |
TechDivision GmbH |
Web |
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Open Source |
Yes |
License |
OSL 3.0 |
Pricing |
Free Usage for Magento Community and Commerce Edition |
Magento Version |
>= 2.2.0 |
Magento Edition |
Community + Commerce |
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Common format and MIME-Type for comma separated values files RFC 4180
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Basic coding standard: PSR-1
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Logger interface: PSR-3
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Autoloading standard: PSR-4
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Caching interface: PSR-6
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Container interface: PSR-11
General
The Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) focuses on small and middle projects where import performance will not be a significant problem. As the Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) performance is already on a very competitive level, we’re talking about medium projects when 100.000 SKUs and below have to be imported regularly.
Besides the SKUs, which are indeed a good benchmark, aspects like the number of websites, attributes, attribute options, or other technical requirements as the infrastructure that should be used can significantly impact performance. Therefore the decision to use the Professional instead of the Community Edition always needs to investigate deeper into a project’s requirements and general conditions.
The Professional Edition is completely based on the Community Edition sources but replaces some main components to improve performance. Additionally, it comes with basic converter functionality and a Redis cache implementation that allows using a Redis server for caching. It will be necessary for multi-process or -threaded environments to share state as well as global data.
Technology
From a technical perspective, Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) can be used in two different ways. Either from within Magento or from outside.
By using it from within Magento, e.g. when the installation has been taken place as Composer dependency, simplifies usage in that way, that it will read most of the necessary configuration from the Magento installation itself.
With the use of outside middleware, those configurations has to be specified on the CLI or on parts of the configuration file.
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Installation via Composer or usage as PHAR
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PSR-3 compatible logger (configurable)
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PSR-6 compatible caching (configurable)
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Cache warming which is especially useful for slow DB connections (configurable)
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Archiving of dedicated import artifacts
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Fine-grained events to easily extend the standard functionality.
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Debug mode that ignores nonbreaking data inconsistencies
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Import to multiple Magento 2 installations/databases from one installation
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Zero-Effort extensibility for new columns that match the EAV attribute name for the entity types that are based on the Magento EAV model, which are
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Categories
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Products
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Customers
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Customer Addresses
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Easy mapping for columns that don’t match the attribute code (by configuration)
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Build-In support for multi-process or -threaded environments
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Guarantee for consistent imports by
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Supporting
.okfiles to mark import ready to be processed -
creating PID files for each operation
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moving files to a temporary directory
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allowing to run operations within a Single Database Transaction
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process multiple files (bunches) within one operation
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CLI (Command Line Interface)
Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) comes with a CLI application that allows to execute commands to achieve the expected result.
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Entirely based on Symfony following PSR-1 and PSR-4
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Strictly using Symfony DI and supporting PSR-11
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Additional options to
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Pass a custom configuration file
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Pass a specific serial for the import process (mostly useful when using the Import Library in as a white-label solution)
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Pass a specific PID file to avoid import collisions when running multiple import processes in parallel
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Pass a custom Magento edition or version
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Pass additional parameters or a file with additional parameters that will be used to customize standard functionality
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Pass a custom DB connection
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Pass custom source and target directory
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Pass a custom archiving directory
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Change the default log level
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Activate the debug mode
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Activate the single transaction mode
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Deactivate the cache functionality
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Deactivate the archiving functionality
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Import commands for the available entity types
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Additional commands to
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Create the
.okfiles -
clear ghost PID files
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export the configuration
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Standard Connector
The standard connector is based on the CSV format as this is, in most cases, this is the least that can be delivered by third-party systems.
Products
The CSV file format of the product import is mostly compatible with the Magento standard CSV format.
Product Types
The product import with the standard connector supports the following product types.
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Simple products
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Virtual products
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Configurable products
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Bundle products
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Grouped products
Additional Functionality
Besides importing products itself, additionally, the following product-related data can be imported.
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Inventory < 2.3.1
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MSI > 2.3.1 (can also be part of the main product import)
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Tier prices (can also be part of the main product import)
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General Prices (also on Website Level)
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Media Gallery
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URL Rewrites
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Dynamic link types (upsell, cross-sell + related)
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Dynamic image types
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Dynamic creation of option values
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Translations on store view level
Clean-Up Functionality (add-update operation only)
Nearly in every case, the add-update operation is the one that fits the requirements best.
One common restriction of this operation is that it only adds new or updates existing data.
As in many cases, it will be necessary to remove data.
The standard connector comes with a clean-up functionality for the most critical data.
The clean-up functionality can easily be activated/deactivated in the configuration.
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Product-category relations
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Product-website relations
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Empty columns (configurable)
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URL Rewrites
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Media gallery
Categories
As Magento itself has no category import at all, the CSV file format is specific but uses the same approaches whenever possible.
General
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Support for all category EAV attributes
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No entity ID necessary; instead, it uses the category paths
Additional Functionality
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Translations on store view level
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Category Images
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URL rewrites
Clean-Up Functionality (add-update operation only)
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URL rewrites
Customers
Magento itself already provides customer import functionality. The Import Library functionality supports the same CSV format.
General
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Support for all customer EAV attributes
Customer Addresses
Magento itself already provides customers with address import functionality. The Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) functionality supports the same CSV format.
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Support for all customer EAV attributes
Attribute Sets + Groups
Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) provides the possibility to import attribute sets and groups.
As Magento itself has no attribute set and group import, the format for the CSV file of the import is specific but uses the same approaches whenever possible.
General
As the attribute import, the attribute set and group import are also not based on the Magento EAV model.
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Support for all attribute set and group attributes
Additional Functionality
Create new attribute sets based on existing ones (configurable)
Attributes
The Import Library provides the possibility to import attributes as well as their option values.
As Magento itself has no attribute import, the format for the CSV file of the attribute import is specific but uses the same approaches whenever possible.
General
In contrast to the other entities, the attribute import is not based on the EAV model approach, as the different entity types are.
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Support for all attribute fields
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Support for all attribute types
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Sort order when rendering attribute sets and groups in the frontend/backend
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Option values for select and multi-select attributes
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Swatch values for text and visual swatch attributes
Additional Functionality
Translation of labels and option/swatch values on store view level