Use the CData ODBC Driver for BigQuery in MicroStrategy Web
MicroStrategy is an analytics and mobility platform that enables data-driven innovation. When you pair MicroStrategy with the CData ODBC Driver for BigQuery, you gain database-like access to live BigQuery data from MicroStrategy, expanding your reporting and analytics capabilities. In this article, we walk through adding BigQuery as external data in MicroStrategy Web and creating a simple visualization of BigQuery data.
The CData ODBC driver offers unmatched performance for interacting with live BigQuery data in MicroStrategy due to optimized data processing built into the driver. When you issue complex SQL queries from MicroStrategy to BigQuery, the driver pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to BigQuery and utilizes the embedded SQL engine to process unsupported operations (often SQL functions and JOIN operations) client-side. With built-in dynamic metadata querying, you can visualize and analyze BigQuery data using native MicroStrategy data types.
About BigQuery Data Integration
CData simplifies access and integration of live Google BigQuery data. Our customers leverage CData connectivity to:
- Simplify access to BigQuery with broad out-of-the-box support for authentication schemes, including OAuth, OAuth JWT, and GCP Instance.
- Enhance data workflows with Bi-directional data access between BigQuery and other applications.
- Perform key BigQuery actions like starting, retrieving, and canceling jobs; deleting tables; or insert job loads through SQL stored procedures.
Most CData customers are using Google BigQuery as their data warehouse and so use CData solutions to migrate business data from separate sources into BigQuery for comprehensive analytics. Other customers use our connectivity to analyze and report on their Google BigQuery data, with many customers using both solutions.
For more details on how CData enhances your Google BigQuery experience, check out our blog post: https://www.cdata.com/blog/what-is-bigquery
Getting Started
Connect to BigQuery as an ODBC Data Source
Information for connecting to BigQuery follows, along with different instructions for configuring a DSN in Windows and Linux environments (the ODBC Driver for BigQuery must be installed on the machine hosting the connected MicroStrategy Intelligence Server).
Google uses the OAuth authentication standard. To access Google APIs on behalf of individual users, you can use the embedded credentials or you can register your own OAuth app.
OAuth also enables you to use a service account to connect on behalf of users in a Google Apps domain. To authenticate with a service account, register an application to obtain the OAuth JWT values.
In addition to the OAuth values, specify the DatasetId and ProjectId. See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for a guide to using OAuth.