bobbyiliev / materialize-metabase-dbt-demo

Materialize + Metabase Demo

Before you start

• A running Materialize instance
• A running Metabase instance
• The Materialize Metabase connector installed
• dbt installed
• Terraform installed (optional)

You can sign up for a free Materialize account here.

Running Metabase (optional)

The Materialize driver is available with Metabase Cloud by default. If you have a Metabase Cloud account, you can skip this section.

If you don't have a Metabase Cloud account, you can run Metabase locally. To do so, follow the instructions below.

Start a Metabase Docker container with the Materialize driver installed:

docker run -d -p 3000:3000 materialize/metabase:1.0.3

Running the demo

• Prepare your environment variables:

cp .env.example .env

• Edit .env and set all the variables to the correct values.
• Source the environment variables:

source .env

• (Optional) Create a Materialize cluster using Terraform:

cd terraform
terraform init
terraform apply

As this step is optional, if you don't want to use Terraform, you can skip this step and create a Materialize cluster manually:

CREATE CLUSTER auction_house SIZE 'medium';

• Run the dbt project:

cd dbt
dbt run

• Generate the dbt docs:

dbt docs generate
dbt docs serve

• Access Metabase at http://localhost:3000 (or your Metabase Cloud instance).

• Create a new database connection to Materialize and explore the data.