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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

Copying the MongoDB JDBC library


We will be using some scripting in these recipes, so it's important to make sure that we have the MongoDB JDBC library copied to the correct location in our Pentaho server.

Getting ready

Make sure you have access to the filesystem that is running your Pentaho server.

How to do it…

Proceed with the following steps:

  1. In your filesystem, navigate to PentahoEE/server/biserver-ee/pentaho-solutions/system/kettle/plugins/pentaho-mongodb-plugin/lib.

  2. Copy the mongo-java-driver.xxx.jar file from the folder.

  3. Navigate to PentahoEE/server/biserver-ee/tomcat/webapps/pentaho/WEB-INF/lib.

  4. Paste the mongo-java-driver.xxx.jar file.

  5. Restart your Pentaho server.

How it works…

By default, it isn't possible to use the scripting/BeanShell data source in dashboards with MongoDB database. This is because the MongoDB Java driver isn't available for the plugin.

In this recipe, we copy the driver that is available in the Kettle BI Server plugin to the lib folder of the Pentaho web app. In this way...