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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook

Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook

Aug 11, 2016


Language: English
Authors: Joel Latino, Harris Ward
Paperback: 218 pages
Release Date: December 2015
Publisher: Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781783553273 






Description

MongoDB is an open source, schemaless NoSQL database system.

 Pentaho as a famous open source Analysis tool provides high performance, high availability, and easy scalability for large sets of data. The variant features in Pentaho for MongoDB are designed to empower organizations to be more agile and scalable and also enables applications to have better flexibility, faster performance, and lower costs.

Whether you are brand new to online learning or a seasoned expert, this book will provide you with the skills you need to create turnkey analytic solutions that deliver insight and drive value for your organization.

The book will begin by taking you through Pentaho Data Integration and how it works with MongoDB. You will then be taken through the Kettle Thin JDBC Driver for enabling a Java application to interact with a database. This will be followed by exploration of a MongoDB collection using Pentaho Instant view and creating reports with MongoDB as a datasource using Pentaho Report Designer. The book will then teach you how to explore and visualize your data in Pentaho BI Server using Pentaho Analyzer. You will then learn how to create advanced dashboards with your data. The book concludes by highlighting contributions of the Pentaho Community.

What you will learn from this book

  • Extract, load, and transform data from MongoDB collections to other datasources

  • Design Pentaho Reports using different types of connections for MongoDB

  • Create a OLAP mondrian schema for MongoDB

  • Explore your MongoDB data using Pentaho Analyzer

  • Utilize the drag and drop web interface to create dashboards

  • Use Kettle Thin JDBC with MongoDB for analysis

  • Integrate advanced dashboards with MondoDB using different types of connections

  • Publish and run a report on Pentaho BI server using a web interface

Table of contents

  • Pdi and mongodb

  • The thin kettle jdbc driver

  • Pentaho instaview

  • A mongodb olap schema

  • Pentaho reporting

  • The pentaho bi server

  • Pentaho dashboards

  • Pentaho community contributions