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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB

By : Bo Borland
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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB

By: Bo Borland

Overview of this book

<p>Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB will teach you MongoDB and Pentaho integration points and developer skills needed to create turnkey analytic solutions that deliver insight and drive value for your organization.<br /><br />Starting with how to install, configure, and develop content in both Pentaho and MongoDB, this book will give you the complete range of skills needed to gain insight into MongoDB data using Pentaho Business Analytics.&nbsp; You will learn about MongoDB data models and query techniques, which are covered in combination with the provided sample MongoDB database. You then advance to data integration, analysis, and reporting using Pentaho.<br /><br />You will learn how to use Pentaho Data Integration to blend and enrich data from additional sources. From this blended data, you will develop professional-looking reports and analysis views that are visual and interactive. Lastly, we will cover the Pentaho web portal and web interfaces for deploying analytics out to a broader set of consumer users.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. MongoDB Database Fundamentals

The previous chapter introduced the document-oriented storage of MongoDB, and we learned that MongoDB JSON-style documents are built on two primary data structures, a nested collection of documents and arrays. This chapter elaborates on this topic and explains the MongoDB database concepts essential for learning how to query MongoDB data with Pentaho. We will start by discussing MongoDB database objects and design methods and then learn how to query the restored sample clickstream database using the mongo shell.

The following are the topics that we will cover in this chapter:

  • MongoDB database objects

  • Sample MongoDB clickstream database

  • MongoDB data modeling

  • MongoDB query methods

By the end of this chapter, you will have a foundational knowledge of MongoDB design and the primary query methods needed to start retrieving data from the sample database.