Feature request · Integrations · Blocks work
Add REST API as a data source
7 source threads · first seen 2016-09 · last seen 2021-08
Summary
Requests a driver that lets Metabase pull data from REST APIs when the data is not held in a database.
Evidence
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“Trino has a bigger community, I think it would be very good for metabase users”
“We are using Calcite to give us a JDBC layer for a proprietary REST api”
“They have drivers and I don't think it should be hard to write for metabase”
“we'd need support for CockroachDB before making any serious moves”
“It would be helpful to add REST-APIs as datasources to retrieve data which isn't held in an own database/application”
“It would be really nice if metabase could support also dynamodb as database”
“Could anybody add support for https://github.com/yandex/clickhouse-jdbc in Metabase ?”