News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on MonetDB – Column-store database. Parent comment

Re:MonetDB – Column-store database by greggyb on Monday June 13, 2016 @06:23PM (#11898231)
Do you know if it's possible to expose an MDX or similar interface to MonetDB for a BI purpose?

I see many references to being able to define your own language, so I wonder if this has been done. I don't see anything explicit when looking through the site.

I ask because many popular visualization and reporting tools can natively generate MDX queries.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:MonetDB – Column-store database by jazzido on Monday June 13, 2016 @07:07PM (#11898504)
It can be done through Mondrian OLAP. See mondrian-rest [0] for an example implementation.

[0] https://github.com/jazzido/mondrian-rest-demo

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:MonetDB – Column-store database by greggyb on Monday June 13, 2016 @07:15PM (#11898539)
Cool! Thanks.

I had heard of Mondrian, but didn't think to check from that end if it could use MonetDB as a back end.

[ Parent | on HN ]