Traditionally, data is delivered to business analytics tools through a relational database. However, there are cases where that can be inconvenient, for example when the volume of data is just too high or when you can’t wait until the database tables are updated.
This presentation by Pentaho Kettle founder Matt Casters will demonstrate a solution of data 'Blending', which allows a data integration user to create a transformation capable of delivering data directly to Pentaho - and other - business analytics tools. Matt will demonstrate taking data from Cassandra, and blending it with other data from both SQL and NoSQL sources, and then visualizing that data. Matt will explain how it becomes possible to create a virtual “database” with “tables” where the data actually comes from a transformation step.
