Question
· Dec 12, 2024

Connecting InterSystems IRIS with Metabase BI

#InterSystems IRIS

Hi everybody,

A customer would like to connect an IRIS database to Metabase BI.  But Metabase does not have a connector that supports the IRIS database.

Metabase only supports these databases:

- Amazon Athena
- BigQuery (Google Cloud Platform)
- Druid
- MongoDB (recommend version 4.2 or higher)
- MySQL (recommend version 8.0.33 or higher, as well as MariaDB version 10.4 or higher)
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- Presto
- Redshift (Amazon Web Services)
- Snowflake
- SparkSQL
- SQL Server
- SQLite
- Vertica

And a few others. 

However, it is possible to create a driver for Metabase that connect to IRIS.  Metabase comes with documentation on how to create a custom driver.

Has anyone yet developed, or know of development of the driver for Metabase to IRIS connection?

Thanks in advance.

Alex Bravo

Product version: IRIS 2024.2
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Derek Gervais · Jul 30

Thanks Kate!

@Alex Bravo to add a bit of context: Metabase makes a distinct between "Officially supported drivers" and "Community drivers." Officially supported drivers are owned and maintained by the Metabase team, while Community drivers are owned and maintained by the community. Additionally, Community drivers are not supported in Metabase Cloud.

In our case, the InterSystems IRIS Metabase driver was created by @Siddardha Reddy Sanagala and is now listed in the Metabase documentation. The article that Kate mentioned has a ton of great information, and you can find the driver directly on Github and our OpenExchange.

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