diff --git a/source/products/bi-connector.txt b/source/products/bi-connector.txt index 290f5ea1f11..274cb6cdafd 100644 --- a/source/products/bi-connector.txt +++ b/source/products/bi-connector.txt @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ .. _bi-connector: =============================== -Business Intelligence Connector +MongoDB Connector for BI =============================== .. default-domain:: mongodb -The MongoDB Business Intelligence Connector (also known as the BI Connector) +The MongoDB Connector for BI (Business Intelligence) allows users to visualize their MongoDB Enterprise data using existing relational business intelligence tools such as Tableau. @@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ These tools expect to connect to a data source and find data in tabular form following a fixed schema. This presents a challenge when working with MongoDB's :doc:`flexible schema ` and rich, multi-dimensional, documents. -The Business Intelligence Connector acts as a layer that passes queries and +The MongoDB Connector for BI acts as a layer that passes queries and data between a :program:`mongod` or :program:`mongos` instance and your reporting tool. It uses a foreign data wrapper with PostgreSQL to provide a relational :term:`SQL` view into your MongoDB data. -Using this model, the Business Intelligence Connector components store no data, +Using this model, the MongoDB Connector for BI components store no data, and purely serve to bridge your MongoDB server with business intelligence tools. @@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ Installation .. note:: - The Business Intelligence Connector works only with MongoDB versions 3.2 and + The MongoDB Connector for BI works only with MongoDB versions 3.2 and greater. -To set up the Business Intelligence Connector with a business intelligence tool +To set up the MongoDB Connector for BI with a business intelligence tool such as Tableau, follow the steps in this section. .. include:: /includes/steps/install-bi-connector.rst @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Example Field Types ~~~~~~~~~~~ -The MongoDB Business Intelligence Connector will correctly map fields that +The MongoDB Connector for BI will correctly map fields that always contain the same data type into the relational model. Schema generation will deal specially with the following cases: @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ Heterogeneous Fields Embedded Documents ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The Business Intelligence Connector will map embedded documents to simple fields +The MongoDB Connector for BI will map embedded documents to simple fields that have a ``.`` separator character, making them appear similar to the way you would reference them using :ref:`dot notation ` in a MongoDB query. @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ This will result in the following fields in the generated schema: Arrays ~~~~~~ -The MongoDB Business Intelligence Connector exposes arrays to business +The MongoDB Connector for BI exposes arrays to business intelligence tools using two collections: one without the array, and the other with the array "pre-joined" to its parent. @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ This will result in the following three tables: Aggregation Pipelines ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The Business Intelligence Connector can use +The MongoDB Connector for BI can use :ref:`aggregation pipelines ` as part of the schema to transform documents from the collection into the proper form for the relational tables.