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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook

By : Joel André Latino, Harris Ward
Book Image

Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook

By: Joel André 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 (15 chapters)
Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Rio Bastian is a happy software engineer. He has worked on various IT projects. He is interested in business intelligence, data integration, web services (using WSO2 API or ESB), and tuning SQL and Java code. He has also been a Pentaho business intelligence trainer for several companies in Indonesia and Malaysia. Currently, Rio is working on developing one of Garuda Indonesia airline's e-commerce channel web service systems in PT. Aero Systems Indonesia.

In his spare time, he tries to share his experience in software development through his personal blog at altanovela.wordpress.com. You can reach him on Skype at rio.bastian or e-mail him at .

Mark Kromer has been working in the database, analytics, and business intelligence industry for 20 years, with a focus on big data and NoSQL since 2011. As a product manager, he has been responsible for the Pentaho MongoDB Analytics product road map for Pentaho, the graph database strategy for DataStax, and the business intelligence road map for Microsoft's vertical solutions. Mark is currently a big data cloud architect and is a frequent contributor to the TDWI BI magazine, MSDN Magazine, and SQL Server Magazine. You can keep up with his speaking and writing schedule at http://www.kromerbigdata.com.