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Alberto Paro
Alberto Paro
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Alberto Paro

Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
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Using SQL via JDBC

The SQL access layer for Elasticsearch is able to provide data access via the two most 
used Database Management System (DBMS) protocols, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC). These drivers can be installed in the client application to easily integrate Elasticsearch with the most popular tools, such as the following:

  • DBeaver
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Qlik Sense Desktop
  • Tableau

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1Getting Started.

We will use the datasets that were populated in Chapter 4, Exploring Search Capabilities and Chapter 7, Aggregations. In this recipe, we will configure DBeaver (https://dbeaver.io/) with Elasticsearch; you need to download (https://dbeaver.io/download/) and install it.

A trial license must be active to use a SQL JDBC connection...

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Alberto Paro

Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
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