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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

Adding parameters to a report


In this recipe, we will guide you through the steps required to pass parameters to a report based on a MongoDB query. Using parameters in our reports means that we can filter data from the data source so that users can find the information that they need faster than a report with ALL data. To do this, we are going to add a parameter to the report first and then parameterize our MongoDB query.

Getting ready

To get ready for this recipe, you will have to make sure your MongoDB instance is running.

How to do it…

Let's start by adding a parameter to the report:

  1. In Report Designer, go to File | New.

  2. Click on the Data tab in the top-right corner of Report Designer.

  3. Right-click on the Parameters item in the list and select Add Parameter…:

We are going to need a small data source that will populate our parameter dropdown with values that the user can send to the MongoDB query. We can generate a data source using a table. Let's do that now:

  1. To add a new data source, click on...