What is a diff between joiner and lookup transformation

Answer Posted / sweta kedia

. I) Joiner is active transformation & lookup is passive
transformation.
II) Joiner operates on sources where as lookup operates
source as well
as target.
III)Joiner doesnt support nonequi joins whereas lookup
supports nonequi join
i.e. joiner transformation supports only equality operator
in condition of join where as lookup transformation can
support<=,>=,=,!= in the lookup condition.
IV) Lookup uses dynamic and static cache where as a joiner
doesn’t.
V) Joiner transformation does not match for null values
whereas lookup transformation matches for null values.
VI) Joiner will do left outer,right outer,normal,full outer
types of joins whereas lookup will do only left outer join.

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