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Date Published
Author
Andrew Morgan
Word count
1474
Language
English
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None

Summary

The MongoDB 3.2 release introduces significant aggregation enhancements, including joins and geospatial operations, which enable more complex data analysis and visualization. The new features allow users to combine data from multiple sources, create interactive queries, and display information in graphical formats. While these capabilities can be achieved directly in the database with some coding glue, there are limitations, such as the pipeline being linear and indexes only being used for the beginning stages of the pipeline. In certain cases, using full data visualization solutions like Tableau may be more suitable to leverage their strengths in visualization, interactivity, and skills. The MongoDB Connector for BI allows Business Intelligence tools to access data from MongoDB using SQL, opening up new options for performing analytics on live data.