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Driver: Apache Calcite

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Description

Calcite is a JDBC driver without an underlying data-store. It provides a means to fairly easily create JDBC access to custom data sources.

https://calcite.apache.org

There are currently adapters (in the Calcite project itself) that would add support for:

- Cassandra
- CSV (this is their development example)
- Elasticsearch
- Splunk
- More at https://calcite.apache.org/docs/adapter.html

Calcite also has a JDBC adapter, that allows piping JDBC requests through this driver.

#### Current version is 1.14.0

We are using Calcite to give us a JDBC layer for a proprietary REST api, would will be really nice to have inside Metabase.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the Apache Calcite adapter documentation and its JDBC adapter, linked in the issue, then compare those capabilities with Metabase's existing database integrations. The issue does not name Metabase files, tests, or an implementation entry point; done would require a defined integration scope and support for the proprietary REST API through Calcite.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java, sql
Domain
backend, databases
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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