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Open Source BI? · 08/07/2005 06:42 PM, Analysis Database
Yes, there still is no really cohesive OLAP/BI solution in Open Source, but there are lots of interesting things happening that you should keep an eye on.
- Pentaho: These folks are creating the glue code to link many of the current open source BI tools, including Mondrian OLAP server, JPivot, Firebird RDBMS, Enhrydra ETL, Shark and JaWE, JBoss, Hibernate, JBoss Portal, Weka Data Mining, Eclipse, BIRT, JOSSO, Mozilla Rhino. And, they have their first demo download, including tomcat and all the pieces, just unzip and run. Nothing hosted for free yet to play with, but since they include all the pieces, shouldn’t be that hard to plop on a test system.
- OpenI: On the left side of my blog, I link to Jim Porzak’s blog on R which is part of the work he does at LoyaltyMatrix in San Fran. Well, the rest of the company has wrapped R in an Open Source BI approach they call OpenI. Similar in many ways to Pentaho, they are including lots of pieces of current Java projects to create a BI platform, and they do have a current demo. Its still rough, but shows great promise. While not trying to take over every aspect of the analytic and reporting process like Pentaho, they are getting lots of the basics in place.
- Bizgres is the latest open source extension from Metapa who is now Greenplum. Basically, they are releasing their data warehouse oriented fixes to PostgreSQL to the community… but only for single nodes. If you want to grid/share the loads across systems, then you need to buy their clever but not open-source tech. The changes they are making to PostgreSQL are very good, and will really help an already very powerful tool become ever more ready to handle really big data. They do have downloadable binaries, but for some reason, keep doing this only for Redhat and Solaris. Not only are these guys very sharp, but they are also part of the PostgreSQL core developers, so their changes stand a good chance of becoming part of the main product over time.
- JasperSoft which is the commercial arm of the JasperReports J2EE toolset.
Nicholas Goodman and the Bayon Blog has one of the best entries on this trend, including lots of links to the various subpieces and some good POVs on which might be a winner… OPEN SOURCE BI – I LIKE PENTAHO.
Actually, Nicholas’ blog has a great bunch of entries and updates recently, so I suggest you read the whole thing…
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PALO is an open source MOLAP server, whereby values can be written back directly to RAM.
Being a 64bit OLAP server it will be able to hold large amounts of data in memory.
It will be available for windows and Linux and have extensive APIs for advanaced users. For data entry and reporting a free excel add-in is available.
Functionaly it will be similar to commerical offering such as Applix’s TM1 and MIS Alea.
Applications include uses such as bugeting and forecasting, BPM.
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