metabase-dremio-cloud-driver

Dremio Cloud driver for Metabase BI

Tested on:

• Dremio Cloud
• Metabase 0.43.0+

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

For Metabase 0.43.0+, there were many changes, for exmample, the build tool changed from lein to Clojure CLI Tools. So, the build steps for metabase-dremio-cloud-driver 1.1.x also changed.

Prereq: Build Metabase source locally

Please refer to Building Metabase document.

Build metabase-dremio-driver

clone the source code, and put it under the same parent folder as metabase's source code.

then, run

clojure -X:build :project-dir "\"$(pwd)\""

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

Thanks

Based on https://github.com/Baoqi/metabase-dremio-driver.