fabrice-etanchaud / metabase-dremio-driver

Dremio driver for Metabase BI

metabase-dremio-driver

Dremio driver for Metabase BI

Tested on:

• Dremio 15.0.0
• Metabase 0.39.x

Which features works

Dremio Driver can works in most metabase functionalities:

• get correct data type for columns
• support filter by numbers & strings & datetime
• get table lists
• x-ray on dremio tables

How to use

1. Download the dremio.metabase-driver.jar from releases
2. Put it under metabase's plugins folder (plugins folder is at the same parent folder with metabase.jar)
3. Restart metabase

Building the driver

Prereq: Install Metabase as a local maven dependency, compiled for building drivers

Clone the Metabase repo first if you haven't already done so.

cd /path/to/metabase_source
lein install-for-building-drivers

Build dremio driver

# (In the metabase-dremio-driver directory)
lein clean
LEIN_SNAPSHOTS_IN_RELEASE=true lein uberjar

The generated "dremio.metabase-driver.jar" can be found in target/uberjar folder

Thanks

Referred to https://github.com/arsenikstiger/dremio-driver, but most logic are referred from Metabase's redshift & sparksql driver.