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by greggyb 3657 days ago
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.
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jazzido 3657 days ago
It can be done through Mondrian OLAP. See mondrian-rest [0] for an example implementation.

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

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greggyb 3657 days ago
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.

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