pablovaldivia/metabase-cubejs-driver

Use Metabase as a frontend for Cube.js

metabase-cubejs-driver

With this driver you can use Cube.js as "backend" with Metabase as a "frontend". Create the schemas in Cube.js connect with Metabase and you are ready to go: make queries, filter the results and create beautiful charts and dashboards.

Explanation:

Cube.js	Metabase
measure	metric
dimension	field
time dimension	field

NOTE: The driver is under development so expect some bugs and missing features. If you find one please create an issue.

Features

Working

• Auto generate data model from the schema fetched from the Cube.js API meta endpoint
• Auto create metrics from the measures. (These metrics are "invalid" when you try to edit them but still usable in queries.)
• native queries
• custom questions
• filters, orders, limit

Not working

• Aggregations like sum, count and distinct. This should be done in Cube.js not in Metabase.

Installation

Requirements

• Metabase v0.35.0 or newer

Get the driver

Download

Download from the releases.

Build with Docker

1. Create the docker images: make docker
2. Build the driver: make build

Build without Docker

Use this guide.

Copy to your Metabase plugins

cp cubejs.metabase-driver.jar /path/to/metabase/plugins/
Note: you have to restart Metabase to load new plugins

Usage

1. Add and configure your Cube.js "DB"
2. Inspect your Data Model
3. Create a query
   • Native
   • Custom question
4. Explore the data

Development

Roadmap

v1.0.0

Testing the driver

1. Create the docker images: make docker
2. Start a whole test environment: make start

Contributing

• Any type of contributions are welcomed
• If you find a bug, missing feature or a simple typo just create an issue
• If you can fix/implement it create a pull request

License

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL)