Metabase Firebolt Driver

Firebolt documentation page

Overview

Installation

Get the driver

Download the latest driver jar from the releases page. Make sure to check the compatibility matrix to get the right version. or Build the driver from source as described in the Build from source section.

Run Metabase locally

1. Download the metabase.jar file from Metabase download page.
2. Run Metabase first time. It will generate all the required files and directories, including the /plugins directory.

   java -jar metabase.jar

3. Stop Metabase.
4. Copy the Firebolt driver jar to the Metabase /plugins directory
5. Start Metabase again. Firebolt connection should be available in the list of databases now.

Build from source

Prerequisites

• Leiningen

Steps

1. Clone and build metabase dependency jar.

   git clone https://github.com/metabase/metabase
   cd metabase
   clojure -X:deps prep
   cd modules/drivers
   clojure -X:deps prep
   cd ../..
   clojure -T:build uberjar

2. Clone metabase-firebolt-driver repo

   cd modules/drivers
   git clone https://github.com/firebolt-db/metabase-firebolt-driver

3. Prepare metabase dependencies

   cp ../../target/uberjar/metabase.jar metabase-firebolt-driver/
   cd metabase-firebolt-driver
   mkdir repo
   mvn deploy:deploy-file -Durl=file:repo -DgroupId=com.firebolt -DartifactId=metabase-core -Dversion=1.40 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=metabase.jar

4. Build the jar

   LEIN_SNAPSHOTS_IN_RELEASE=true DEBUG=1 lein uberjar

5. The jar will be available in the target directory.

Compatibility matrix

Metabase Release	Driver Version	Firebolt Version
<=0.47.x	3.0.1	1.0
>=0.48.x	3.1.0	1.0 and 2.0
>=0.52	3.2.0	2.0