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.

Prepare a local Metabase installation for building drivers

Download the Metabase sources
Compile a local Metabase installation for building drivers

lein install-for-building-drivers

Build the driver

Checkout the Firebird driver sources to {metabase-source-dir}/modules/drivers/firebird
Build the driver. This will create the .jar file in the directory target/uberjar. Just copy that file to your plugins directory and you are good to go!