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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook

Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook

By : Joel Andre Latino, Harris Ward
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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook

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.
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Define a connection using a SQL Client (SQuirreL SQL)

In this recipe, we will guide you through the steps required to connect to your MongoDB instance via the JDBC-based SQuirreL SQL Client. We will be using the Thin Kettle JDBC Driver to make the connection to the MongoDB instance.

The SQuirreL SQL Client is a SQL client open source project, and it is possible to connect to any database that provides a JDBC driver, such as Thin Kettle.

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. Then make sure that the Carte and DI servers are running. Download SQL Squirrel from http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net and install it in your computer by following the instructions on the website.

How to do it …

Once we have our Carte or DI Server up and running, we can configure a SQL client to fire some SQL queries and get some data back. Perform the following steps to configure a Squirrel SQL client:

  1. Open your Squirrel...
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