NOTE: Instead of Dremio (which is covered in this blog), we recommend using Trino to connect to and work with MongoDB. Learn how to use Trino with Helical Insight: Read the Trino Integration Guide It is possible to use MongoDB with Open Source BI product Helical Insight. There are two methods via which we can
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NOTE: Instead of Dremio (which is covered in this blog), we recommend using Trino to connect to and work with MongoDB. Learn how to use Trino with Helical Insight: Read the Trino Integration Guide It is possible to use MongoDB with Open Source BI product Helical Insight. There are two methods via which we can
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Users can connect to Elastic Search via Dremio. The following steps need to be followed: Step 1: Install and start Dremio. To learn how to install Dremio, click here. Step 2: Open Dremio console in the browser by entering your-host-ip:port in the address bar. Here, Dremio is on the localhost. Default port for Dremio is
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This blog gives details of the installation of Apache Drill in embedded mode, i.e., to use Drill on a single node. If you wish to install Drill in distributed mode, follow the instructions here. Pre-requisites: We have tested with Apache Drill 1.14 Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows: Oracle or OpenJDK 8 Windows only: A
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NOTE: From version 5.2.2 of Open Source BI Helical Insight, we have provided DIRECT inbuilt support to connect and use JSON, CSV, Excel, GoogleSheet, API etc. There is no dependence on other middleware (like Apache Drill) and this is a recommended approach to be used. If you are using older version or want to use
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To install dremio first you have to download it. Here is the link where you can download dremio and start installing Install Dremio Please follow the below instruction in order to installa and use Dremio. Here is the reference link on how to install Dremio for Mac Dremio Mac Installation Here is the reference link
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When you install Helical Insight it comes already loaded with many database drivers. Now in certain cases you may not be able While connecting to different databases, you need to add its JDBC4 driver in the Helical Insight Driver Folder. To add the JDBC4 Driver, please follow blow mentioned steps. Step 1: Download the JDBC4
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Helical Insight dashboard designer also allows you to inject your own code at entire dashboard level or individual report level. On right click it has got HTML CSS JS options as well. Again, as mentioned earlier, on whichever component you right click, the code will get applied to that specific component. Below we have covered
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This article explains you about overlays in dashboard designer using Helical Insight application. In certain cases in a dashboard we may want to make components on top of each other as overlays. For example company logo should be on top right of the report panel etc. In order to make components as overlays make them
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On the dashboard designer page there are multiple operations and functionalities which can be done on right click. Now on whatever component the right click happens, the functionality/UX changes get applied to that specific component. For instance, the components can be added report, added image, added text box, a group. Please note that some of
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