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  1. API reference
  2. Welcome
    1. Component overview
    2. Quick start
    3. System requirements
    4. Troubleshooting
    5. Managing license keys
    6. Migrating from WebDataRocks to Flexmonster
  3. Connecting to Data Source
    1. JSON
      1. Connecting to JSON
      2. Connecting to JSON using Flexmonster Data Server
      3. Data types in JSON
    2. CSV
      1. Connecting to CSV
      2. Connecting to CSV using Flexmonster Data Server
      3. Data types in CSV
    3. Database
      1. Connecting to SQL databases
      2. Connecting to a MySQL database
      3. Connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server database
      4. Connecting to a PostgreSQL database
      5. Connecting to an Oracle database
      6. Connecting to other databases
    4. Flexmonster Data Server
      1. Getting started with Flexmonster Data Server
      2. Installation guide
      3. Configurations reference
      4. Data sources guide
      5. Security and authorization guide
      6. The Data Server as a DLL
        1. Getting started with the Data Server as a DLL
        2. Referring the Data Server as a DLL
        3. Implementing the API controller
        4. Implementing the server filter
        5. Implementing the custom parser
        6. DLL configurations reference
        7. The controller's methods for request handling
    5. MongoDB
      1. Introduction to Flexmonster MongoDB Connector
      2. Getting started with the MongoDB Connector
      3. Embedding the MongoDB Connector into the server
    6. Microsoft Analysis Services
      1. Connecting to Microsoft Analysis Services
      2. Getting started with the Accelerator
      3. Installing the Accelerator as a Windows service
      4. Referring the Accelerator as a DLL
      5. Configuring the authentication process
      6. Configuring a secure HTTPS connection
      7. Troubleshooting
    7. Custom data source API
      1. Introduction to the custom data source API
      2. A quick overview of a sample Node.js server
      3. A quick overview of a sample .NET Core server
      4. Implementing the custom data source API server
      5. Implementing filters
      6. Supporting more aggregation functions
      7. Returning data for the drill-through view
    8. Elasticsearch
      1. Connecting to Elasticsearch
      2. Configuring the mapping
    9. Pentaho Mondrian
      1. Connecting to Pentaho Mondrian
      2. Getting started with the Accelerator
      3. Configuring Mondrian roles
      4. Configuring username/password protection
      5. Configuring a secure HTTPS connection
      6. Troubleshooting
  4. Security
    1. Security in Flexmonster
    2. Security aspects of connecting to an OLAP cube
      1. Ways of connecting to an OLAP cube
      2. The data transfer process
      3. Data security
      4. Data access management
  5. Configuring report
    1. What is a report
    2. Data source
    3. Slice
    4. Options
    5. Mapping
    6. Number formatting
    7. Conditional formatting
    8. Set the report for the component
    9. Get the report from the component
    10. Date and time formatting
    11. Configuring global options
    12. Export and print
    13. Calculated values
    14. Custom sorting
  6. Integration with frameworks
    1. Available tutorials
    2. Integration with Angular
    3. Integration with React
    4. Integration with Vue
    5. Integration with Python
      1. Integration with Django
      2. Integration with Jupyter Notebook
    6. Integration with React Native
    7. Integration with AngularJS (v1.x)
    8. Integration with TypeScript
    9. Integration with R Shiny
    10. Integration with jQuery
    11. Integration with Ionic
    12. Integration with Electron.js
    13. Integration with Webpack
    14. Integration with RequireJS
  7. Charts
    1. Available tutorials
    2. Flexmonster Pivot Charts
    3. Integration with Highcharts
    4. Integration with Google Charts
    5. Integration with FusionCharts
    6. Integration with any charting library
  8. Customizing
    1. Customizing the Toolbar
    2. Customizing appearance
    3. Customizing the context menu
    4. Customizing the grid
    5. Customizing the pivot charts
    6. Localizing the component
  9. Updating to the latest version
    1. Updating to the latest version
    2. Release notes
    3. Migration guide from 2.7 to 2.8
    4. Migration guide from 2.6 to 2.7
    5. Migration guide from 2.5 to 2.6
    6. Migration guide from 2.4 to 2.5
    7. Migration guide from 2.3 to 2.4
    8. Migration guide from 2.2 to 2.3
    9. Documentation for older versions
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Getting started with Flexmonster Data Server

This section illustrates how to connect to a data source using Flexmonster Data Server.

Flexmonster Data Server is a special server-side tool implementing the custom data source API. It is responsible for fetching data from a data source, processing, and aggregating it. Then the data is passed to Flexmonster Pivot in a ready-to-show format. The Data Server significantly reduces the time of data loading and enables analyzing large datasets.

Flexmonster Data Server supports the following data sources:

  • CSV and JSON files
  • MySQL databases
  • Microsoft SQL Server databases
  • PostgreSQL databases
  • Oracle databases
  • Microsoft Azure SQL databases

Advantages of Flexmonster Data Server:

  • Larger datasets. Despite Flexmonster Pivot can connect to a CSV or JSON file directly, the size of a file is limited by the browser’s capability (on average, up to 100 MB). With Flexmonster Data Server, it is possible to visualize datasets up to 1GB.
  • Reduced browser’s memory usage. Loading, processing, filtering, and aggregating of the data is made on the server side, so Flexmonster gets the ready-to-show data. Thus, the data is visualized faster, and the browser’s resources are used more efficiently.
  • Built-in security configurations. Flexmonster Data Server is provided with convenient tools for establishing authorized access to the data and security management.
  • A convenient way of connecting to a database. Though there are several ways of fetching data from a database, the speed and capacity of the Data Server make it the best way to load the data from a database.
  • Cross-platform solution. Flexmonster Data Server is available for popular operating systems: Windows, Ubuntu/Linux, and macOS.

There are two ways to use Flexmonster Data Server:

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