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.. _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.

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 </data-modeling>` 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.

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.. 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
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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:

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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 <document-dot-notation>` in a
MongoDB query.
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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.

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Aggregation Pipelines
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Business Intelligence Connector can use
The MongoDB Connector for BI can use
:ref:`aggregation pipelines <aggregation-pipeline>` as part of the schema to
transform documents from the collection into the proper form for the relational
tables.
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