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How are those 500+ data source connectors are implemented? Do you use 3rd party APIs? Im always curious about that.
Great question. We're using Meltano ( https://hub.meltano.com/extractors ), so no third party (we host the meltano jobs on our infra for you).
It's open-source Heroku Dataclips (one of my favorite products ever)! I haven't used Blazer, but I have followed and love the idea behind this project. If folks have used it here, I'd love to hear from them.
It's open-source Heroku Dataclips (one of my favorite products ever)! I haven't used Blazer, but I have followed and love the idea behind this project. If folks have used it here, I'd love to hear from them.
I've used it before, it's great to start, but here's what happened to me: 1. Connected it to my production postgres (which was fine when I didn't have many users) 2. Spun up a replica postgres on GCP to connect it to instead 3. I wanted Stripe and CRM data in the reports, but I can't sync those to the replica and I didn't want to load them to prod 4. Signed up for Snowflake ($$$) and set up Fivetran ($$$) to sync all…
I think that's my main issue with tools like this.
Since it consumes user defined SQL directly, how secure is it from SQL injections?
[1] https://github.com/ankane/blazer/blob/bd06aab33052783e84672b...
[2] https://blog.saeloun.com/2019/10/28/bind-parameters-in-activ...
This looks super cool. One thing that stands out as missing (or I am missing it) -- does anyone know if there's a way to drill into the data and see the raw tabular data behind a given chart? That's one feature Metabase has that I find essential -- if a number in a chart looks off (or you're just curious) you can drill into the row-level tabular data and figure out what's going on.
However, I’ve contributed a couple of PRs and heard crickets. Doesn’t seem as if the repo is maintained actively these days, so we run a modified fork internally.