Firebird driver for metabase

This driver enables metabase to connect to FirebirdSQL databases.

Installation:

• Make sure you have installed a recent Metabase Version.
• Download the latest release of the Firebird driver or build it from source.
• Create the plugins directory if it doesn't already exist. By default that directory is next to the metabase.jar file, but you can specify a different directory by setting the environment varianble MB_PLUGINS_DIR.
• Just drop the firebird.metabase-driver.jar in the plugins directory. On startup, metabase will load the plugin and the driver should be available.

Authentication issues when using Legacy_Auth

The latest releases are built with version 4.x of Jaybird (the Firebird JDBC driver), which no longer supports Legacy_Auth.

⚠️ First of all: Legacy_Auth is disabled for a reason. You should only use the following workarounds if you have no way of using a more secure authentication method. ⚠️

If you really need to access your database using Legacy_Auth (#14) you can add it to the authentication plugins. For example:

jdbc:firebirdsql://localhost/employee?authPlugins=Legacy_Auth

If that does not work for you, you can use the release artifact firebird.metabase-driver_jaybird-3.jar which is built with Jaybird 3.x.

Building from source:

For a detailed description, take a look at the official documentation.

• Checkout the main metabase repository and the firebird driver repository in the same parent directory:

workspace
  - metabase
  - metabase-firebird-driver

• Run the build.sh script from the metabase-firebird-driver repository

cd metabase-firebird-driver
./build.sh

• The driver will now be built. The .jar file can be found in the target directory.