Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook
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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook

  1. 218 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook

About this book

Over 50 recipes to learn how to use Pentaho Analytics and MongoDB to create powerful analysis and reporting solutions

About This Book

  • Create reports and stunning dashboards with MongoDB data
  • Accelerate data access and maximize productivity with unique features of Pentaho for MongoDB
  • A step-by-step recipe-based guide for making full use of Pentaho suite tools with MongoDB

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for data architects and developers with a basic level of knowledge of MongoDB. Familiarity with Pentaho is not expected.

What You Will Learn

  • Extract, load, and transform data from MongoDB collections to other datasources
  • Design Pentaho Reports using different types of connections for MongoDB
  • Create a OLAP mondrian schema for MongoDB
  • Explore your MongoDB data using Pentaho Analyzer
  • Utilize the drag and drop web interface to create dashboards
  • Use Kettle Thin JDBC with MongoDB for analysis
  • Integrate advanced dashboards with MondoDB using different types of connections
  • Publish and run a report on Pentaho BI server using a web interface

In Detail

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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Table of Contents

Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Preface
Pentaho Installation
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. PDI and MongoDB
Introduction
Learning basic operations with Pentaho Data Integration
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Migrating data from the RDBMS to MongoDB
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
How to reuse the properties of a MongoDB connection
Loading data from MongoDB to MySQL
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Migrating data from files to MongoDB
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Exporting MongoDB data using the aggregation framework
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
MongoDB Map/Reduce using the User Defined Java Class step and MongoDB Java Driver
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Working with jobs and filtering MongoDB data using parameters and variables
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
2. The Thin Kettle JDBC Driver
Introduction
Using a transformation as a data service
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Running the Carte server in a single instance
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Running the Pentaho Data Integration server in a single instance
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Define a connection using a SQL Client (SQuirreL SQL)
Getting ready
How to do it …
How it works…
There's more…
3. Pentaho Instaview
Introduction
Creating an analysis view
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Modifying Instaview transformations
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Modifying the Instaview model
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Exploring, saving, deleting, and opening analysis reports
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
4. A MongoDB OLAP Schema
Introduction
Creating a date dimension
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Creating an Orders cube
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating the customer and product dimensions
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Saving and publishing a Mondrian schema
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Creating a Mondrian 4 physical schema
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Mondrian 4 cube
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Publishing a Mondrian 4 schema
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
5. Pentaho Reporting
Introduction
Copying the MongoDB JDBC library
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Connecting to MongoDB using Reporting Wizard
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Connecting to MongoDB via PDI
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Adding a chart to a report
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Adding parameters to a report
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Adding a formula to a report
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Grouping data in reports
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating subreports
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a report with MongoDB via Java
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Publishing a report to the Pentaho server
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Running a report in the Pentaho server
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
6. The Pentaho BI Server
Introduction
Importing Foodmart MongoDB sample data
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Creating a new analysis view using Pentaho Ana...

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