C* Summit EU 2013: Leveraging the Power of Cassandra: Operational Reporting and Interactive Analysis
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The document discusses reporting and analysis options for Cassandra, highlighting the need for accessible data by non-technical users. It outlines various architectural approaches including ETL, direct access reports, data exploration, and utilizing Hadoop Hive. Jaspersoft provides a framework and tools to facilitate these methods, addressing the limitations of traditional analytics solutions.
C* Summit EU 2013: Leveraging the Power of Cassandra: Operational Reporting and Interactive Analysis
- 1. Leveraging the Power of Cassandra: Operational Reporting & Interactive Analysis Ernesto Ongaro BI Consultant Jaspersoft
- 2. Agenda Requirements for Cassandra reporting and analysis Current state of reporting and analysis Architectural approaches Demo Q&A ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 2
- 3. Requirements for Cassandra reporting and analysis People want access to the data in Cassandra Most consumers of data are not technical Traditional reporting and analytics tools don’t work with Cassandra Building reports from scratch is not easy or fun Providing ad-hoc analytics is very complicated ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. 3
- 4. Current State of Reporting & Analytics Connectors are for RDBMS only Expensive Desktop Standalone ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 4
- 5. Advantages to using a reporting and analysis framework Build it yourself Use a framework Visual report designer ✖ ✔ Security ✖ ✔ Scheduling ✖ ✔ Web access ✖ ✔ API ✖ ✔ Self-service queries ✖ ✔ Charting libraries ✖ ✔ Metadata layer ✖ ✔ Input controls ✖ ✔ Flexibility ✔ ✔ ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. 5
- 6. Architectural Approaches Four methods to visualize your Cassandra data ① ETL Approach (Extract, Transform, Load) ② Direct access reports and dashboards ③ Direct access data exploration ④ 1-3 with Hadoop Hive ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 6
- 7. 1 – ETL Approach Most traditional approach Data is extracted via batch method Option with most connectors ETL process is most robust option BI Platform SQL ETL RDBMS ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 7
- 8. JaspersoftETL Powered by Over 450 connectors Data quality, transformations, aggregations ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 8
- 9. 2 – Direct Access Reports and Dashboards Reports are developed using Jaspersoft Studio (Eclipse based designer) Lowest latency Good supplement to ETL when “near time” is required Connector based on https://github.com/Netflix/ astyanax ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential BI Platform CQL3 Native Connector 9
- 10. Example Dashboard ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 10
- 11. 3 – Direct Access Exploration Allows users to explore data (vs pre-defined reports + dashboards) Loads results of a query into memory where further filtering, grouping and agg. occurs In Memory OLAP Engine BI Platform CQL3 Native Connector ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 11
- 12. Example OLAP View ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 12
- 13. 4 – Hadoop Hive Good for massive data Batch process Native Hadoop Hive connector as well BI Platform HQL SQL ETL RDBMS ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 13 libhive
- 14. Demonstration Demo flow: • • • Example Dashboard + report Jaspersoft Studio Ad-hoc Exploration Demo environment: • • Jaspersoft 5.5 – runs on Tomcat 7 DataStax Enterprise 3.1 (Cassandra 1.2.10.1) ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 14
- 16. Conclusion • • • • Four different ways to get insights from Cassandra Commercial open-source software Get started at http://jaspersoft.com Thank you! ©2013 Jaspersoft Corporation. Proprietary and Confidential 16