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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook

By : Joel Andre Latino, Harris Ward
Book Image

Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook

By: Joel Andre Latino, Harris Ward

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Running the Carte server in a single instance

This recipe guides you through starting a Carte server on a single-instance machine. The Carte server is a lightweight web server that enables remote execution of transformations and jobs. It is a crucial tool for coordinating job and transformation executions in a scale-out cluster environment.

Getting ready

To get ready for this recipe, you first need to start the MongoDB server with the same database as that of the last chapter. You will also have to check <user home folder>/.pentaho/metastore in Unix/Linux operating systems, and in the Windows operating system, the C:\Users\<user home folder>\.pentaho\metastore folder is accessible to the Carte server.

How to do it…

To start the Carte Server, perform the following steps:

  1. First, we will have to configure the properties of Carte Server, such as hostname, port, and whether it is the master in the cluster environment:
    1. You need create an XML file with the following content:
      <slave_config...